Teaching Through Change, Stories of Resilience: Austin ISD
[…] Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). Districts are leaning on teacher leaders like Shapiro during this unique time to help new and experienced teachers adapt to new realities and instructional challenges. When Shapiro was asked to create her “Lessons from the Field” series around getting started with distance learning for the first-grade teachers of AISD, she focused […]
Support STEM Education Through Student-Centered Challenges
By: Shannon Robinson As educators keep moving from “traditional,” teacher-centered instruction to student-centered learning environments, we’re realizing the importance of integrating STEM into curriculum. Research shows that the pandemic emphasized the need for access to STEM resources, with 77% of the world saying that a strong STEM education is crucial. That includes the classroom by putting […]
4 Ways to Flip School Culture
Most in education have heard the term ‘flipped.’ In school, this has simply meant changing the instructional approach by turning what you’ve traditionally done upside down. Common examples have been moving the independent work associated with homework to the classroom and the direct instruction associated with class to home. But when we normally talk […]
Smart Review: Texthelp Launches WriQ for Writing
[…] Word add-in. It can also be upgraded to Premium for the district and school administrators, who can see overall student progress that can be used to support instructional decision-making for a district or school’s entire curriculum or compare their schools and districts against national norms. McKay wanted to prove that these learning tools worked. […]
8 Tech Tools for Teachers
[…] they need it. It is also helpful to create these videos to share with families. With these multi-purpose websites and apps, we can provide different forms of instruction for our students and engage them in the lessons in a variety of ways. Being able to ask a quick question or to create an instructional […]
Leading With Intention: Innovation and Insight
[…] mentorship program, I had a better understanding of how I could deliver professional development that facilitated educator choice, self-pacing, and any time learning through leveraging mastery-based, blended instruction. I could now provide feedback to teachers about their progress on the skills they wanted to work on versus the old model of talking to all […]
School Vaccine Hub Publishes Curricular Resources for Teachers to Help Students Learn About COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy
[…] at Achievement First where he oversaw a network of 15 elementary schools across three states. Before joining Achievement First, Max oversaw all of Uncommon Schools’ Brooklyn elementary instructional leaders as the Director of Brooklyn Elementary Instruction for the Prep and Excellence networks of Uncommon Schools. Max originally joined Uncommon Schools as the Founding Head […]
Multiple Choice
By: Barbara Pape More schools are helping students get involved in their own learning through initiatives that build agency, voice, and instructional input. Student agency requires each student to experience a sense of belonging in all classes and activities. Authentic student agency also depends on rigorous teaching and learning that relies on understanding each […]
The Power and Possibility of Community Learning Hubs
[…] School board members approved a measure in early September of 2020 that allowed district officials to partner with nonprofits, churches, and other community groups to create “ instructional support groups,” also commonly referred to as “community learning hubs,” where online students gather in small numbers to socialize and receive academic help. Conscious of this […]
Eric Sheninger’s Disruptive Thinking in our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future
[…] during the pandemic, no matter whether it was in-person and socially-distanced, learning from home–both synchronously, and asynchronously, or in some hybrid fashion where learners were engaging with instruction both in and out of their familiar learning environments. Sheninger hopes to redirect our energies to empower the same sorts of gains for students as we […]
