Think Like A Fitbit: Measuring What We Value
Think like a Fitbit and zoom out and collect a variety of data and feedback about overall student academic health.
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10 Ways To Be A More Reflective Teacher
Don’t become addicted to ‘fixing’ your teaching; celebrate what you do well. Identify strengths and use them to transform your teaching.
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Why Technology Hasn’t Already Transformed Education
Apple set out to innovate textbooks and it just might work. But innovation in textbooks only results in innovative textbooks.
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6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom
Deeper Learning is a set of student outcomes that includes mastery of essential academic content, thinking critically, and solving complex problems.
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10 Things Every Teacher Needs To Survive
Teachers always need tools, strategies, and ideas but sometimes it’s the less obvious factors that determine their long-term success.
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Where Has The Joy Of Learning Gone?
When joy and comfort are absent, students’ brains are distanced from effective information processing and long-term memory storage.
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12 Barriers To Innovation In Education
While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
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What An Episode Of King Of The Hill Taught Me About Good Teaching
Hank (from King of the Hill) brings a clear-eyed vision to how he and the kids can be effective and useful, and the kids are transfixed.
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You Can Now Drag And Drop To Organize Your Google Classwork Page
In Google Classroom, you can now drag and drop topics and individual Classwork items. The main benefit is simpler organization.
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Learning Theories: Adaptive Control Of Thought
ACT-R is a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.
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A Free Tool Kit From Harvard’s Project Zero
Here’s A Free Tool Kit From Harvard’s Project Zero To Incorporate Good Work Into Your Curriculum by Terry Heick Good work is central to TeachThought’s approach to teaching and learning. It’s part of the ethos of our Inside-Out School model and central to critical literacy. It’s also a recurring theme in Wendell Berry’s work (a Kentucky author who…
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10 Dos & Don’ts For Teaching Vocabulary In Any Content Area
Teach students morphological strategies to figure out words they do not know, in addition to context-clue strategies.
