How Hands-On Robotics Brings Science Lessons to Life
By: Katie Blagden and Barb Tennyson. Incorporating coding and engineering into earth and life science lessons engage students and inspires them to show their learning.
Getting Through: Leading Through And To A New Generation Of Learning Systems
[…] they will be changed, the whole world will be changed. Emerging in this same space is a new culture of staff, students, and family engagement that have differentiated needs and abilities unlike ever before. Creating Culture Together Designing a learning environment that is ready, agile and responsive to a future level of expectations in […]
Leading Adult Learning during COVID-19
By: Jenny Pieratt, Ph.D. In part two of a three-part series, Jenny discusses how to recreate places of adult development during these times of distance education.
How a Montessori Classroom, Online Learning, and Family Engagement Can Work Together
[…] But in addition to being excited about their child’s enthusiasm for learning, what struck me about these conversations with parents was that they were talking in an instructional way about what their kids were learning. They’d tell me, “He’s recognizing his capital letters,” and “She’s noticing words that rhyme.” Typically, conversations with parents are […]
Literacy Concerns in the New Mutuality
The recent pandemic is illuminating gaps or deficiencies and Eric discusses how to make sure basic needs are met for the most vulnerable students and not let the literacy gap widen while schools are closed.
ACT’s ScootPad Scoop-Up
[…] Division President, Jonell Sanchez, has been leading this effort and said his team chose ScootPad for a variety of reasons that aligned to their strategy for personalizing instruction for individual students. “This really catapults our learning strategy…building on ACT’s strength of their 60 year history in assessment and aligning that to learning,” says Sanchez. […]
Future Ready: The New Version of School
[…] online program. 1. Blend the core academic program. Many schools have spent five or 10 years blending digital tools and resources into their print-based curriculum and updating their instructional strategies. Some spent the last two months catching up. Five years ago, our Implementation Guide 3.0 described blended learning as “a formal education program in which a […]
Book Review: Otherful by Mike Kleba & Ryan O’Hara
[…] Principals and superintendents have been working doggedly in the past weeks equipping their teachers to make sure a student’s basic needs are met before while not forsaking instruction and learning from afar. And while teachers collaborate with parents and try to protect instructional time, administrators are doing what they can to look ahead and […]
Successful Play-Based Learning in Virtual Environments
Of all things instructional that may be challenging to facilitate in the distance environment, play-based learning may be one of the most. But don’t tell that to Teacher Aidan Bybee who has been making quite an impression with her virtually-facilitated play-based instruction and activities. Bybee, along with her team at iLEAD Agua Dulce (a […]
Summer Learning: 10 Professional Learning Experiences for Educators
Rachelle Dene Poth shares seven summer professional learning opportunities for educators.