Place Based Education
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Future of Learning
Strategies for Fostering a Productive Distance Learning Experience
[…] is not a supply pick-up option, invite students to use crayons or coins to count, make arrays, or otherwise show their work. Plan lessons that include real- life items that students have in or around their homes. You might have students bring something from their homes to measure as you teach them how to […]
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SEL & Mindset
Guided Mystery: The Scaffolding You Need to Grow Stronger
[…] death, Al and I began a lively correspondence—by phone calls, email, and once via U.S. mail. So much of what Al spent his career studying—and his own life exemplifying—is what all young people need in order to fulfill their dreams and their potential: personal agency. What is agency? The conviction that you shape your […]
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Personalized Learning
Stop, Look, and Listen: Kilo
By: Jonathon Medeiros “The most basic lesson that all art teaches us is to stop, look, and listen to life on this planet, including our own lives…” – Frederick Buechner As the pandemic stretches into its third year, I wonder when we will stop thinking in terms of “when this is over.” I wonder […]
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EdTech
Let’s Use ChatGPT to ‘Think Different’ About K-12 Schools
[…] how to use it to plan lessons, assess student work, and compose messages to parents. New York State Master Teacher Mary Howard, author of Streamlining Your Teacher Life with AI, says, “As an educator, one thing that I can assert with respect to this new wave of artificial intelligence tools is that we need […]
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Difference Making
Students Are Still Telling the Stories
[…] I’ve gotten used to it and now I don’t feel nervous about doing all of that now” Real-world Opportunities in the Classroom Students have participated in real- life reporting and on-camera experiences that included creating commercials for a local business, supporting supply procurement for building a recording stage and interviewing school faculty members students […]
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Future of Learning
Recalibrating Your Teacher Mindset
“What would I teach, and how would I teach, if my goal were to best prepare my students for life—the life they live today and the one they will live for all the time that follows school?” Carol Ann Tomlinson poses this question in an Education Leadership article titled Mileposts of a Meaningful Life. […]
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SEL & Mindset
Why Every K-12 District Should Invest in Social and Emotional Learning
[…] in the context of supportive relationships. The process we follow focuses on building students’ knowledge, skills, and attitude to navigate the world by explicitly teaching skills like life management and social awareness. It’s part of a five-step method EPISD students learn from an early age: self-management, social awareness, responsible decision making, self-awareness, and relationship […]
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Leadership
Resilience: The Skill That Keeps Teaching and Learning Thriving at Pasadena ISD
[…] always our students. Through Summit Learning, we are confident our students are receiving the well-rounded education and mentoring that helps meet their needs and prepare them for life beyond the classroom. At Jackson Intermediate School in Pasadena, Texas, Principal Jennifer Stewart has made mentoring and goal-setting the primary focus of this year. During the […]
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Personalized Learning
Bringing Project-Based Mentors into The Educational Fold
[…] Mentoring Builds Character and Competency Project Based Mentoring occurs when a mentor and mentee collaborate on a real-world project. And that collaboration lends itself to six important life lessons that embody the mentor/mentee bond. One of the most important personality traits a mentor brings to the relationship is “if I did it – if I […]
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Future of Learning
Invention Opportunity In Early Learning And Development
Listed are ten invention opportunities in early learning and development that could reignite an equitable start in life and long-term economic mobility.
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