What Is CPTSD? My Experience
CPTSD is a complex, often debilitating response caused by events over a period of time–anywhere from months to an entire childhood.
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What Are Mindfulness Skills?
This Full Sensory mindfulness activity, combined with the ‘non-thinking zone,’ are important assets for teachers and students.
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How To Help Students Learn From Anything
What/who is the most compelling, ongoing catalyst for helping students learn in your classroom? If it’s the teacher, you’re in trouble.
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In Defense Of Absolute Literacy
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
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Student-Centered Learning Requires Adjustments Of Perspective
Education is at its strongest when learners are at the center of the process and can exercise their choices about what happens.
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The Impact Of Creativity On The Brain
The current theme of the critical role of the arts is providing students with a well-rounded education that meets the needs of the whole child.
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The TeachThought Dictionary: Learning Models & Technology
A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: An ongoing index of emerging learning models, theories, and technology for progressive teaching.
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What School Redesign Can Look Like When It’s More Than a Slogan
Across the United States, a small but growing number of districts are quietly moving past traditional reform models.
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11 Ways To Reduce Creativity In Your Classroom
It’s not merely the closed-mindedness of fixed belief that can hold students back: it’s also the convenience of habit, the laziness of stereotyped thinking.
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How Games Naturally Promote A Growth Mindset
In a growth mindset, there are larger factors than the outcome. Progress and growth are acknowledged as valuable in the learning process.
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How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do
So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.
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A Troublesome Contradiction Between Transparency & Learning Innovation
Learning produces long-term and often invisible results–few of which are illuminated with the most common learning outcomes and artifacts.
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What Is A KWL Chart?
A KWL chart is a graphic organizers that students use before, during, and after learning to activate prior knowledge and reflect on learning.
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The Empowering Benefits Of Social-Emotional Learning
Replacing mindsets of fear and judgment with inquiry and compassion when potential is limited can have exponential effects on learning.
