Place Based Education
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Learner-Centered
Avoiding Accidental Harm: Fostering Positive Impact on Students’ Lives
[…] Klein At a conference in Malaysia in the spring of 2023, I heard keynote speaker Todd Shy, author of Teaching Life: Life Lessons for Aspiring (and Inspiring) Teachers (2021) and head of upper school at Avenues in New York, refer to education as a “human event” that changes lives for the better. He shared […]
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Leadership
A Question of Trust: The Arcadia Unified Better Together Project
[…] Winter and Spring of 2019 and 2020 from 11 K-12 schools in the Arcadia Unified School District. Data came from a total of 42 school leaders, 371 teachers, 1622 students, 409 parents, and 174 classified staff reflecting close to a 70% response rate. Seven stakeholder groups were invited for the survey round, interviews with […]
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Future of Learning
Communicating with Your Teacher Will Never Be the Same
Brett Kopf struggled as a learner. It was his teacher, Mrs. Whitefield that kept him on track with reminders of what was important. Ten years ago, Brett and his brother David founded a company to bring that kind of community of learning to students everywhere. With some great advice as part of the first […]
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Place Based Education
The Trail to Recovery: Addressing Learning Gaps Through Project-Based Learning
[…] guide, which you can download here, recommends specific approaches and strategies for addressing the previously mentioned concerns. These suggestions form a sort of “trail” that schools and teachers can follow when considering the best way to address this issue. This trail includes; 1) project-based learning, 2) engaging students in collaboration, 3) enrichment 4) field […]
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Equity & Access
How Schools Can Promote Vaccination and Address Hesitancy: A 10-Point Plan that Puts Equity First
[…] with reopening. Schools are directing maximum effort to ensure that every student receives high-quality education, while working to safeguard the health, safety, and well-being of students, families, teachers, and staff. Still, school is part of daily life for many people in American communities. This connection gives school leaders an opportunity to address vaccine hesitancy […]
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Getting Through
Focusing on Feedback: A Conversation with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn About Supporting Educators During Distanced Teaching
By: Adam Geller Collecting evidence of teaching practice and providing feedback based on that evidence is critical to the professional learning process. For teachers to be successful—especially this year with distanced teaching—this is a practice that needs to be prioritized. Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn, educational coaches and co-authors of multiple books including Feedback to […]
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Getting Through
SEL in the Era of COVID-19
By: Lori Jackson. During this time of school closure and distance learning, SEL is more important than ever. Everyone—parents, teachers, and students—can practice identifying, understanding, and managing their emotions.
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Getting Through
How Can Schools Grow from Coronavirus?
By: Ross Wehner and Dr. Kirk Wheeler Coronavirus has closed schools around the globe. Now it’s sparking what could be the largest-ever experiment in teacher training. As a history teacher at Collegiate School in Richmond, VA., Brad Cooke was known for taking students off campus to explore his city’s history of enslaved people and […]
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Getting Through
Reimagining Family Engagement in the Time of Covid
[…] mutually supportive network of educators, families, and students, creating a climate that promotes learning and success. Common channels of engagement include family night events, PTA meetings, parent- teacher conferences, and community-building social events. The pandemic and the need for physical distancing has disrupted many of these traditional strategies to engage families. Concomitantly, educators are […]
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EdTech
The New Fundamentals: Tools to Optimize Remote and Blended Learning and How Educators Can Use Them This Year
[…] find themselves incorporating remote and blended learning options into the school day, the education community has work to do to improve the quality of the experience for teachers and learners alike. An international survey conducted last year found that compared to other countries, teachers in the U.S. and Japan report that remote teaching was less […]
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