24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School
Middle school students are an interesting bunch of emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, knowledge, and maturity.
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The New Commercial Education
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…
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The Difference Between Updating And Rebooting Your Classroom
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…
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Let’s Focus On Local Assessment
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…
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20 Smart Educators With 1000 Followers Or Less
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…
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Blended Leaning Conference In Rhode Island Continues To Grow
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…
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8 Course Evaluation Templates To Get Feedback From Students
Getting feedback from your students can be an eye-opening experience. Course evaluation templates through Google Forms make it easy to get.
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13 Very Different Tools To Help Students Find Their Voice
Here are 6 different possibilities to help students find their voices, rom those text-based to artistic, dramatic to digital.
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The Significant Benefits Of Social Learning
Thanks to gamification on networks like Khan Academy, students can enjoy solving problems as they gain ranks and compete with one another.
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27 Ways To Assess Background Knowledge
The purpose of assessing background knowledge is not to get everyone on the “same page,” but to make what a student knows visible.
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22 Things We Do As Educators That Will Embarrass Us In 25 Years
What do we, as educators, do now that in 25 years we’ll look back on and shake our heads in embarrassment?
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6 Checks To Thoughtfully Connect Students & Standards
Curriculum Development: 6 Checks To Thoughtfully Connect Students & Standards by Tony Frontier A year from now, students around the country will be sitting at lunch tables talking about the new standardized tests they’ve taken. Removed from the politics and processes of these new tests, students will not talk about the development processes used by the PARCC or Smarter Balanced consortia. They will not talk about the merits…
