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Future of Learning

How Parents Can Create Dedicated Learning Zones

[…] in the months to come. To learn more about how students, educators, and schools are faring in the time of COVID-19, check out: How Students are Strengthening Life Skills During School Closures COVID’s Impact On How Students Serve Others Teacher Care: Apps and Ideas for Finding Balance Tina Eaton is a long-time remote worker […]

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Learning Design

Book Review: The Math(s) Fix

[…] for everyday living, and for logical mind training. Throughout the book, Wolfram shows how math education is not just about calculations. Wolfram says, “Maths is more about life than calculations.” (p. 56). The problem is that current maths courses are not providing enough opportunities for students to apply their skills at a higher level. […]

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Future of Learning

The Two Most Important Things We Don’t Teach

[…] floods, more fires and famine, more mass dislocation and immigration. “It is worse, much worse than you think,” said David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, about life on Earth after warming. The only answer is a full-court press on mitigation and adaptation–that’s playing offense and defense simultaneously–on a global scale. The massive impacts of […]

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Learning Design

A Key Component of Student Voice

[…] class with some justice-centered niching and the opportunity for students to become activists. For more, see: Stephanie Krauss on Readiness, Opportunity, and the Right to a Decent Life  The Two Most Important Things We Don’t Teach    Lindsay Lyons is an instructional who works with teachers and school leaders to inspire educational innovation towards racial […]

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Future of Learning

Cultivating Critical Consciousness in the Classroom: 10 Counternarrative Resources

[…] engagement experience that invites people around the world to inspire one another to reveal and promote acts of compassion that better our lives, our communities, and all life on Earth.” Users can report acts of compassion on a global map and read or share stories on their blog. The Wonderment: A website that “seeks to […]

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EdTech

Reinvigorating Hybrid Learning Through New Tools

[…] uncommon that I’ll choose some different tools that have been used in business or in higher education, so that when students encounter similar experiences later on in life, they are better prepared and see more meaning in their learning experiences. Here are five recent experiences that I designed for my students. The best part […]

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hybrid tools
Leadership

What Does Your Ideal Learning Environment Look Like?

[…] and learning looks like, how can teachers be expected to meet the expectations? Leaders commonly use strategic plans or vision statements that describe the desire to develop life-long learners, global citizens, critical thinkers, and the like, yet a misalignment often occurs between the vision, policies, and practices. The tension between what we say we […]

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Texas Learning Exchange
Equity & Access

Student Voice: My Goal Is to Change the Face of the Healthcare Profession

[…] to explore career options and learn a variety of skills at any early age. Having the NAF advantage will prime me to achieve my dreams later in life while giving back to my community. The moment I learned I had gotten the internship at PCCI was meaningful not just because it’s a step toward […]

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Leadership

Striving Toward a Better Accountability System

[…] are the leaders and teachers of Gunter ISD holding ourselves and our students to high expectations; are we teaching beyond the state standards and developing not only life-long learners but teaching good citizenship and high-character? We want to be held accountable in how we’re performing academically in a wide variety of ways and beyond the […]

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