Is a child’s future fixed at birth, determined by family strength and the parent’s financial status? Karl Alexander notes in his research that all of the kids who got a better start at life because their parents were married and working ended up better off and for the poor kids from single-parent families stayed poor
Read MoreI use to wonder how other teachers were presenting the same content across similar grade levels and boy did it make a difference. I was always excited about the content, even if it was a subject that I was unfamiliar with but I noticed that my excitement fueled their eagerness to learn
Read MoreThere are many ways to have a parent teacher conference and yes, they are necessary but what if I told you parent teacher conferences are changing. Conferences usually suggest reporting which hinders a two way form of communication
Read MoreMcGraw-Hill Education has published it! It’s here! It’s here! This new program is called StudySync, while only catering to grades 4th-12th, this new comprehensive, full year curriculum provides materials for both the teacher and the learner
Read MorePeriscope is a new app that is connected to twitter. This app allows you to braodcast video’s from anywhere in the world! It was developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein
Read MoreAre you counting down the days until summer like me? Well, with only a few weeks left it’s hard to imagine the finish line, but it’s almost here
Read MoreIs your kindergartner or first grade student having trouble with Phonemic Awareness? Do they need understanding that speech is made up of distinct yet identifiable sounds.
Read MoreAltSchool is a new school this year with a mission of combining Montessori and a School of One. NPR calls it the school for 2030. Who would have thought of this amazing thing, well former Google start-up Max Ventilla did!
Read MoreIt’s nice to have a teacher appreciation week, but there must be ongoing appreciation throughout the year. How did you get celebrated this week? Please post some ways you were celebrated?
Read MoreTo have your students design something from scratch taps into their ability to create, innovate, and invent. Project based Learning is one way to do this! Project Based Learning is an approach that challenges students to learn through engagement in a real problem
Read MoreLet’s support our digital natives and enhance their skills! Let’s just do it! Dr. Scott McLeod states in his blog on Dangerously Irrelevant, Technology, Leadership, and the future of schools.
Read MoreThis is a controversial topic but a mandatory one. In New York there is a boycott of state testing at least 155,000 students opted out of assessments. “With the addition of these high stakes attached to the teacher evaluations, really just took it over the top
Read MoreIn schools we rave about technology and how it supports learning, in which I totally agree. Technology is a great tool that extends learning for students and enables them to search quickly for information.
Read MoreMany teachers are stressed out, but my heart goes to teachers of charter and non-union schools. In my many years of teacher training,
Read MorePut technology in kids’ hands as early as possible and let them drive the initiative forward, says Professor Katie Morrow. Wow, to have students involved in planning? What an idea! At the University of Kentucky professor Nash developed Design Thinking which is sort of what Morrow is implying.
Read MoreYes! Blended learning is what we are moving towards because no-one gets left behind. Many teachers use technology to support students in many ways schools are adopting programs that are online while mixing it with face-to-face teaching
Read MoreHow do you introduce new concepts to your students? HOOK! HOOK! HOOK! Try introducing concepts that inspires and excite students! Take a look at this clip, is it interesting or engaging?
Read Moreteaching document explains how to provide high quality development for teachers to thrive. It goes over strategies for growing teams of teacher-leaders, tools for teachers to be successful in the classroom
Read Moreakiyyah Bergen created this Lesson Plan_ Oral History Project 9_11 (grades Pre-K-5) at Roxboro Middle School. Wow, this is a great way to bring in primary sources. I truly enjoy when students own their work
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