What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read
Some readers may think they dislike the process of reading but everyone loves ideas–and reading is a wonderful strategy to find them.
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Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
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Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.
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The Challenge Of Scale In Learning
What scale in learning should someone operate on to ensure that they are aware and in control of their effects on the things around them?
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Practice And Reflect: A Road Map To Becoming A Better Teacher
Improvement in teaching can be reduced to a matter of prioritization, practice, reflection and refinement.
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Mobile Learning Should Disrupt What ‘School’ Is
In education, we tend to think of mobile learning as learning in classrooms with tablets and smartphones. But that’s only part of it.
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The Sync Teaching Method: A Blended Approach To Self-Directed Learning
Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides the lesson. This is the Sync Teaching Method.
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15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching
Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ‘first.’ Here are 15 examples of student-centered teaching.
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The Difference Between Lateral Reading And Vertical Reading
Lateral reading is reading ‘across’ texts sequentially–primarily for the purpose of evaluating the credibility of a text.
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The Challenge Of Global Learning In Public Education
There is tremendous pressure for education to ‘globalize.’ But the challenge of global learning is that it isn’t universally agreed upon.
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How To Deal With A Difficult Parent
In all of my years of teaching, I can count on one hand the number of ‘difficult parents’ I had to face. But when I did, it was extremely challenging.
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Why Public Schools Should Continue To Use Remote Learning
The future of learning is certainly blended learning–a mix of remote and face-to-face instruction. Perhaps we should use current momentum?
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6 Immediate Strategies For Improving Teacher Morale
Rediscovering the human elements of teaching and learning is among the most powerful strategies for improving teacher morale.
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When Schools Think More About Data Than Understanding
Teaching is easy. Teaching well is very, very hard to do day in and day out, especially in the schools that need it most.
