Posts by Susan Davis
SEL & Mindset
Providing Contextualized Learning Through Mentorship
Too often school initiatives, whether they promote technology or grammar or social-emotional wellness, are offered up in a void. They have no real context in which to unfold. Mentorship offers an alternative.
EdTech
Making Their Own Learning: Students Review Two Helpful Apps
Although we often think young people are wasting time on the web, I’ve known many students who also scour it for tools that can help them study and learn. Here are two such students reviewing education apps they use and find helpful.
Leadership
Smart Review | The Flexible ELA Classroom
Amber Chandler's new book can inform a range of disciplines, serve the needs of public or private schools, and help anyone who deals in discipline-specific vocabulary, reading, presentations or projects.
Marketing & Communication
Olympic Dreaming: 5 Ways to Connect Kids Globally
Talking with students about global connectedness while the Olympics are still relevant is a great way to begin the school year and a perfect time to participate in “The Great Global Project Challenge.”
Personalized Learning
Beginnings Matter: Start The School Year Off Right
As you begin a new school year, what is the message you really want to send? Let these first lessons and encounters be the beginning of the change you want to see in the classroom and in your profession.
Personalized Learning
4 Projects for Building Global Connections
We can begin a practice of global education first by leaning in, then making friends, sharing passions, and collaborating to take action about what matters.
Personalized Learning
Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?
It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.
EdTech
9 Ways to Get Your Grammar Game On: A Playlist
At the end of nearly every school year, a few parents will ask me for recommendations for websites or apps to help their children review grammar over the summer. So with the help of my colleague, Sarah Cauthen, I created a grammar review playlist with my students in mind.
Personalized Learning
Blogging Now, Communicating for the Future
Susan, Getting Smart Teacher Blogger shares where we're going, the skills that matter now, and what the future holds for blogging and communication.
Personalized Learning
5 Practices for Tomorrow Every Teacher Should Adopt Today
Educators must take a hard look at the future bearing down upon us and begin educating our students to become the innovators and creative thinkers the world will require them to be.