What Are The Best Resources For Building Parental Engagement? contributed by Alison Anderson, gettingsmart.com Parent engagement has always been a very bright spot on my radar when thinking about keys to success for schools. Lately, it feels important to distinguish between parent engagement and parent involvement. Both are important and something every school should strive…
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist If you’ve been in a classroom as long as I have, you’ll know students say some interesting things. You may have seen student test papers with humorous answers. Students always seem to have a reason, excuse, or insight or response for everything. Sometimes, their remarks are…
by Dr. Kimberly Tyson, learningunlimitedllc.com Digital tools are cool, right? They add to our productivity in countless ways. Many are slick, and are free or low cost. Educators, technology gurus, design folks, and consultants help turn us on to the latest and greatest digital tools that make our life easier. Many support and enhance student learning….
What Are The Best Tips To Reduce Teacher Burnout? by Lisa Chesser There’s a reason why teachers receive a sad, knowing nod from others at a dinner party or when meeting new people. The profession kicks us around and often kicks hardest when we’re down. We teach for the pleasure of sharing a subject or…
While it’s not your job to be a circus clown, student engagement leads to student growth. Here are 8 ways to be a more interesting teacher.
Middle school students are an interesting bunch of emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, knowledge, and maturity.
For a quick read and a little humor, here is some bullet-point sarcasm about the “new commercial education” from Wendell Berry (via The Joy Of Sales Resistance, from his short collections of essays Sex, Economy, Freedom, And Community.) He’s talking more about universities than K-12, but, well, it’s all the same isn’t it? “Actually, as we know, the new…
The Difference Between Updating & Rebooting Your Classroom by Terry Heick As they do in other fields full of human beings, money, and systems, discussions about teaching and learning usually tend towards two extremes. Either there sky is falling panic, or the more things change the more they stay the same indifference. There really isn’t any…
Let’s Focus On Local Assessment by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education If you agree that the track we are going down on high-stakes one-shot testing of every student in terms of Common Core is unproductive and unsustainable, I have a modest proposal to make about how to ditch the tests but move Common Core standards forward. Let’s use…
Who To Follow On Twitter: 20 Smart Educators With 1000 Followers Or Less Normally “who to follow on twitter” posts are full of obvious, preaching to the choir, rich-get-richer accounts–a who’s who of edu-twitter users you probably already follow anyway. In response, we decided to create a different kind of list–people worth following with fewer…
This Blended Leaning Conference In Rhode Island Continues To Grow by Dawn Casey-Rowe The Highlander Institute is rapidly changing the conversation around technology and education in Rhode Island schools. What was once a small local non-profit is growing, and is on track to affect how schools integrate technology into the classrooms not only in Rhode…
Getting feedback from your students can be an eye-opening experience. Course evaluation templates through Google Forms make it easy to get.