Ensuring that My Students Have a Safe and Uncomfortable Place to Think
Tweet When a conclusion agrees with our politics, we are much more likely to accept the result, blind to how bias has affected a study’s design and framing. — Annie Duke’s Weekly Newsletter, V. 1, #34...
View ArticleThe Grief of Leaving Public Education
Tweet This post was first published on Pam Moran’s Medium page and is republished with her permission. I’ve been in deep reflection on the grief of leaving after 43 years my work as a public educator...
View Article10 Tips for Embedding Digital Portfolios as Part of your Classroom Habits
Tweet Originally posted on Langwitches: The Magic of Learning and reprinted with permission. Teachers and schools are dipping their toes into the world of Digital Portfolios. They are using platforms...
View ArticleDigital Portfolios and Content
Tweet This post first appeared on Langwitches: The Magic of Learning and is reprinted with the author’s permission. Digital Portfolio Challenges When I work with schools, educators, and learners...
View ArticleThinking Flexibly about Schedules
Tweet I was listening to Fast Company’s podcast featuring Dan Pink in which he describes that if you’re an employer, you might want to consider adopting a flexible approach when it comes to setting...
View ArticleGetting Students to Participate in Higher Level Thinking
Tweet In my Human Biology class student learning can begin at any one of three points: comprehension, conceptual modeling, or application. This is visualized in the flowchart below which is provided to...
View ArticleDigital Footprints from the Teen’s Perspective
Tweet First published on Connect & Learn: Preparing for the Future in Education and republished with permission. I had the honor of facilitating a panel discussion by a few of our high school...
View ArticleRequisite Dispositions For Educators Who Are Committing To Personalized Learning
Tweet By Arthur Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda The true goal of personalized learning is for every learner to become increasingly comfortable with self-direction as they engage in interesting,...
View ArticleA Vision for the Future of School that You Can Own
Tweet Over this past weekend, I dug into the book Finnish Lessons 2.0 by Pasi Sahlberg with the intention of reading about the transformation of Finnish education before my trip to Finland at the end...
View ArticleDoing What We Want Our Students to Do: Being Vulnerable and Willing to Fail...
Tweet English teacher Denise Earles from Madison Public Schools, CT is part of an innovation project to experiment with standards based grading in a traditional school system. Kevin Siedlecki is in his...
View ArticleLearning What Works Through Looking at Student Work
Tweet We are a fairly large comprehensive high school in North County San Diego which continues to see our student population shift. Similar to all schools in our area, our diversity and socioeconomic...
View ArticleWhat Progressively Student Driven Means in Personalized Learning
Tweet We define personalized learning as: a progressively student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes....
View ArticleHappy Start to the School Year!
Tweet Happy start of the 2018-19 school year! Whether you started a few weeks back or on Tuesday, I hope that the relationships you are cultivating with students and staff are promising and powerful....
View ArticleSet Students Up for Success with Choice: Interview with Maggie West
Tweet This post was originally published on Leading Great Learning and is reposted with permission. Read our interview with Mike Anderson: Choice As A Lever for Personalized Learning The way we...
View ArticleBenefits of Gaming for Learning (Infographic)
Tweet Gaming is far more than just a form of entertainment. There’s good news in store for the parents of teenagers who spend hours each day on interactive, role-playing and single player games across...
View ArticleClarity on What it Means to Put Students at the Center — Inspired by an...
Tweet The piece “No, Teachers Should Not Put Students in the Driver’s Seat,” immediately captured our attention because of its either/or polarizing title and because the article proceeds to limit...
View ArticleInterview with Giselle Martin-Kniep
Tweet We interviewed Giselle Martin-Kniep, president of the Learner Centered Initiative. As always, Giselle is a very thoughtful educator. We explored her work with civic engagement paying attention to...
View ArticleThe Magic of Perspective: How Harry Potter and My 8 Year Old Helped Me Better...
Tweet The reality of the modern world, especially in schools, is that we work in teams. Teachers may work in grade level teams, PLCs, vertical teams, cross-collaborative teams, and a million other...
View ArticleEngaging a Learning Community
Tweet The question we are often asked is “how can we get our community to buy in to personalized learning?” In fact, you can substitute personalized learning for any number of issues and the same “buy...
View ArticleHelping students (and ourselves) navigate disagreement
Tweet Greetings from somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on my way back to the United States from Finland. The week-long adventure was full of insight about what we saw and imagination of what could be....
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