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The Skills Students Need to Survive and Thrive
By: Gayle Allen. How one principal is addressing the growing skills gap and 9 skills students need in what is becoming an increasingly uncertain job market.
5 Social Media Must Knows for Every Teacher
By: Cari Bennette. Instead of perceiving social media as a distraction or a hindrance to learning, we must embrace opportunities for social media to expand capacity and facilitate instruction.
Coding in the Classroom: Here to Stay
By: Eric Nentrup. Embracing coding may seem like a daunting task. But that’s changing thanks to organizations such as Code.org and their annual event Hour of Code.
A New Spin on a Drucker Favorite
By: Todd Hitchcock. Can Drucker’s ‘Managing Oneself‘ framework extend beyond managing oneself? Could it be as wildly successful if applied to ‘others’?
Listening to Learn: The Impact of Tuning In
By: Monica Brady-Myerov. Why we must work to build better listening measures so we can build better listeners, and in turn, better learners.
Coding In The Classroom: How Teachers Are Learning To Code
By: Melinda Barlow. It's the foundation level action that is necessary for real progress in coding to be made: teachers learning how to teach coding, students learning coding in class.
5 Ways to Become More Comfortable With Technology in Your Classroom
By: Jessica Sanders. Educators are all at different levels of EdTech implementation. Here are five things for those beginning the shift to digital learning to practice to grow familiar and comfortable.
Movies Remind Us, Even Scientific Quests are Personal Ones
By: Janine Ingram. As both new movies, 'Interstellar' and 'The Theory of Everything' explore, it all comes down to this value proposition... What knowledge will we seek, what places will we go, what will we risk, what will we invest in – for those we love?
Standards Spotlight: Mastering Reading Standard 7
By: Maureen McLaughlin. CCSS Reading Anchor Standard 7 is often cited. But in today's multimodal world, students’ ability to problem solve using diverse media couldn't be more important.
Standards Spotlight: Mastering Reading Standard 9
By: Brenda J. Overturf. Tips, strategies and tools for educators and administrators to help students master common core reading standard #9.