SEL & Mindset
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the deliberate commitment to including a framework of essential skills and dispositions that complement academics but historically have not been a part of curricular design. Learners acquire and effectively apply the skills necessary for self-regulation or managing and talking about emotions, forming relationships, setting goals and demonstrating empathy during their learning.
Leadership
Implementing Restorative Practices In The Classroom
History shows that suspension and expulsion of students does more harm than good, so my school has chosen to implement a new form of school discipline called Restorative Practices. Here are my observations on this approach so far.
SEL & Mindset
What Happens When Principals and District Administrators Sit in the Student’s Chair?
By: Heera Kang. In this experiment, EdLeaders were exposed to two types of math lessons: one solid, traditional lesson, and one that exemplified innovative techniques not centered around memorizing. The results may change the way we teach math.
Schools Worth Visiting
7 Critical Components to Empower Student Success
By: Lori Vandeborne & Steve Vanderhoff. Here are the 7 Critical Components to Empowering Success we implement at Rushmore Academy to ensure we remove any and all barriers to learning for our at-risk student population.
Leadership
Student 3D Printing That Helps Make A Difference
By: Joy Schwartz. Students thrive when asked to solve real problems that have the power to make a difference, as demonstrated by my high school students while designing and building a working prosthetic arm to donate to a local seven-year-old girl.
Post-Secondary
11 Essentials For Maximum Impact on Student College Prep Success
AVID is an academic support program that helps typically underrepresented students succeed in challenging college prep courses and prepare for college by focusing on successfully implementing 11 "essentials" identified for maximum impact.
Leadership
Equipping Students to Lead In Our Rapidly Changing World
By: Vippen Thekk. We are living in a world where change has become the only constant, so let's help today's students master the essential skills of empathy, teamwork and leadership to solve problems they care deeply about and become changeagents.
Leadership
Listening is a 21st-Century Skill
By: Scott Petri. Many students are poor listeners simply because no one has shown them how, so here are some resources to help embed teaching this 21st-Century skill throughout curriculum.
Leadership
7 Ways to Build Strong Relationships with Students
At my school, we believed that each of us had to try and make a connection with students and, at some point, someone's try would be the one that worked. Here are seven positive acts we'd repeat until a connection was made.
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Enhancing a CTE Program to Boost Student Readiness
By: Tammy Hyatt. Working and learning go hand in hand when a student is on the path to mastering a specific skill set or subject material, and for students in Career and Technical Education programs, this couldn’t be truer.
SEL & Mindset
Becoming Macro and Micro Focused Educators
As a teacher, I’m challenging myself to zero in daily on one student and look for their story to understand the complexities of learning for that particular child and make any shifts that would help them.