We do this so that our students can really become more efficient in asking better questions. A Habit of Mind is a pattern of intellectual behaviors that leads to productive actions.
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Of course we know that when parents feel welcomed and are invited in the school often they are more likely to be involved in their children’s education.
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What if school playgrounds came equipped with building materials, tools, and movable pieces? There is this breakthrough notion that students may be interested in exploring while using their imagination, go figure?
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Uhhhh….. Hmmmm…. No! Many states are facing a sever teacher shortage. In Los Angeles there has been a teacher shortage and enrollment in teacher programs is down 53 percent
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Our school systems has failed our children by not keeping them safe at schools, not turning a conflict into a teachable moment, and by suspending students for days at a time. What is going on?
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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
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I 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
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There 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
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McGraw-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
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Periscope 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
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Are 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
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Is 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.
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AltSchool 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!
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It’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?
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To 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
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Let’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.
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This 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
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In 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.
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