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.
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.
Education is at its strongest when learners are at the center of the process and can exercise their choices about what happens.
Brainstorming for problem-based learning: Which ‘parts’ of the world would most benefit from my creativity, affection, and sustained effort?
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgment while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions.
“What did you learn in school today?” It’s easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives.
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From building trust and relationships to cultivating responsibility, here are 6 strategies for working with your most ‘difficult’ students.
It’s an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.
Students need access to lower-level information to then use in higher-level thinking that requires them to synthesize disparate perspectives.
If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
A personal learning network is a group of people you connect with to learn from through their ideas, questions, backgrounds, and references.
In a growth mindset, there are larger factors than the outcome. Progress and growth are acknowledged as valuable in the learning process.