Student Portfolio Models
Tweet This is my 5th year using student portfolios in the classroom. Student portfolios can have many different purposes and structures based on what the end goal of the portfolio is. I have to be...
View ArticleUsing Design Thinking to Set the Vision for a Career Superhighway
Tweet First published on Next Gen Learning and reprinted with permission. Envisioning a career superhighway in Vista, CA through empathy interviews with students. Setting an effective vision for the...
View ArticleWhat Should Our Kids Know and Be Able to Do?
Tweet This post first appeared on Reading By Example and is reprinted with permission. The art of reinvention will be the most critical skill of this century. – Yuval Noah Harari This is a question...
View ArticleInterview with Phil Muscott
Tweet Phil Muscott is head of school in Cambodia. He has been working with Understanding by Design and Habits of Mind for a number of years. He became so intrigued with the work that he designed a...
View ArticlePersonalizing Learning for First Gen to College
Tweet The world of work is changing. We need to make certain that we are preparing all of our students to enter a highly volatile and uncertain workplace. GlobalMindED was launched six years ago to...
View ArticleRoad Trip to Finland: Our Reflections and Takeaways
Tweet When you see regular headlines like this — “10 Reasons Why Finland’s Education System is the Best in the World” — I wanted to better understand what makes it so and to grow my thinking about...
View ArticleKindness: Let’s Toss it Around Like Confetti
Tweet In a small Connecticut school in Litchfield County, students in a multi-age K,1,2 class co-taught by teachers Robin Faust and Jen Worden engaged in a unit on civics and civility with a focus on...
View ArticlePersonalizing from Local to Global
Tweet Thanks so much for your immediate and warm response on our last newsletter — Power of Portfolios. If you were on Spring Break or it got lost in your inbox, click here to get access to it. This...
View ArticleSeeking Insight on Conversational Competence from 6th Grade Podcasters
Tweet By: Allison Zmuda with Beth Campbell with Her 6th Grade Students from Hopewell Elementary School, Iowa What if we could better understand how to grow conversational competence from students?...
View ArticleHow Do People Make Decisions When Faced With Uncertainty?
Tweet In February of this year, we were honored to host best-selling author, in-demand decision strategist and World Series of Poker bracelet holder Annie Duke for our 11th grade Humanities Course –...
View ArticleWhat Conversational Competence Is and How to Embed This in Your Classroom...
Tweet More and more frequently, our eyes are on a screen as we engage with a task at hand. Whether we are working independently to meet a challenge; catching up on personal, local, and global stories;...
View ArticleConversational Competence (Part 1 in a Series of Conversations)
Tweet This newsletter was triggered by an article I came across in The Atlantic — My students don’t know how to have a conversation. Author and English teacher Paul Barnwell reflects: Conversational...
View ArticleHow Writing Conferences in the World Language Classroom Saved My Red Pens and...
Tweet Conferencing yielded the best papers I have read in years. When I sat down to “grade” the final papers a few weeks ago, I didn’t need several red pens, as I found there were few errors. I didn’t...
View ArticleAre We Setting Students Up For Failure When We Assign Them To Groups And Say,...
Tweet When you think about your experience as an adult, collaborating with coworkers, do you get an uncomfortable pit in your stomach? How often does it go just right? Over my many years and many...
View ArticleInterview with Mike Anderson
Tweet We are thrilled to spend some time with Mike Anderson – our friend and author of a new book What We Say and How We Say it Matter: Teacher Talk that Improves Student Learning and Behavior (ASCD,...
View ArticleWalking the Talk: How Leaders Grow a Personalized School Culture
Tweet Let’s engage in a storytelling challenge. What were some of your most powerful learning moments as an educator so far? What did you see in these stories? What are the patterns? What were the...
View ArticleBuilding Relationships in the Early Days of School in the Service of Learning
Tweet Who is in your classroom matters. To build relationships in the service of learning, we need to better understand who they are, where they come from, what their interests are, and what they dream...
View ArticleReflecting Forward As We Head Back to School
Tweet Wonderful to connect with you as your summer vacation is winding down or perhaps temporarily being interrupted by a trusted learning resource to sponsor your reflecting and imagining for the...
View ArticleA Play-By-Play Strategy for Co-Creating Curriculum with Students
Tweet This month’s newsletter features Sam Nelson, a middle school teacher in Vermont who has been prototyping with his students to co-create social studies curriculum. This video narrated by Sam...
View ArticleCo-Creating Curriculum: How do we grow students capacity to do interesting work?
Tweet Before we launch into the theme of this newsletter, based on the automatic replies that shared you were away on vacation, here is the link to the previous newsletter: Reflecting Forward As We...
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