From The Classroom To Your PLN: 10 Collaboration Tips For 21st Century Teachers by Terry Heick Summer is a make-it-or-break-it time for educators. The non-stop, brutal schedule that is a school year starts with all the finesse of trampling elephants, and doesn’t relent for the next nine months (not coincidentally, the same amount of time…
If you’ve ever wondered what an 8th-grade student from over a century ago was expected to know, wonder no more.
When your day to day existence is in question, major cultural systems are failing and public education, as a system, has to be near the top of that list.
The neuroscience of how the brain learns and what influences the application of learning should be included in all teacher education programs.
School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In In 2020, the distinction between formal and informal learning is more crucial than ever. As a classroom teacher, this difference is an important distinction. Formal learning happens through strategic planning of learning experiences, often direct instruction from teachers. Teacher and school improvement is driven by the…
Without guidance to critically think about digital footprints, persona, and audience, it’s no surprise to see students ‘make mistakes’ on social media.
The Access Model is a framework to provide guidance to curriculum designers, teachers, etc. in designing 1:1 teaching and learning resources.
Poetry gets a bad rap for being too dense and pretentious. Try these strategies to help students who hate poetry warm up to its magic.
We’re all capable of being brilliant at one task & hopeless at others. Here are tips for how to motivate struggling students.
Technology alone won’t have the capacity to improve education unless it’s woven into a holistic vision that meets urgent objectives.
It was because I changed my policy on zeroes mid-year that this student was afforded the opportunity to pass when everything looked bleak.
Technology Is Just A Tool by Jennifer Rita Nichols Most educators can agree that the biggest trend in education today has to do with technology integration. As more and more schools find ways to use technology in the classroom and across subject areas, teachers are trying multitudes of techniques for effective integration that promotes student…