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Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum
Vancouver has been an education leader for 180 years. VPS is piloting open math curriculum to provide a common, coherent, guaranteed curriculum.
Popular Twitter Chats for Every Day (or Night) of the Week
It’s never been easier for educators to collaborate with peers and grow their professional learning networks. Learn the most popular education Twitter chats to join daily!
Open Up: High Quality Standards-Aligned Math Curriculum
The newly launched nonprofit Open Up Resources offers openly licensed, standards-aligned educational resources that are accessible to all students, regardless of first language or special needs.
Preparing Teachers for Project-Based Learning
One important aspect of teacher preparation today is project-based learning. Here are five reasons we feel teachers should be PBL prepared and five key practices of a PBL teacher.
3 Small Steps Toward Creating a Flexible Classroom
For those teachers who want to dabble with Differentiation, but might not want to completely revamp their already effective classroom, here are three small steps toward creating a Flexible Classroom.
Teaching is a Project-Based Profession: 10 PBL Teacher Mindsets
Today's teachers who are training students (and our eventual future employees) have a great task at hand preparing students to successfully manage projects. Here are 10 mindsets successful project-based teachers have.
Focus on Fighting Poverty, Not the Students Living in It
In his book Poor Students, Rich Teaching, Eric Jensen shares how focusing on combating the effects of poverty, not on “what poor students cannot do,” to be a key catalyst for change.
EdTech 10: Pure Imagination
In honor of our favorite Willy Wonka of all time, this week's top edtech stories share a new view of the world from the imaginations of education leaders.
Is Meditation the Game Changer Teachers Have Been Looking For?
During my first year of teaching, I failed to find a means of coping with the ongoing emotional rollercoaster of this career. During the second year, I found the game-changer I needed to overcome my stress and focus instead on my classroom.
What Happens When You Combine a Writer’s Workshop and Makerspace?
I recently had a chance to observe Angela Stockman, author of "Make Writing: 5 Strategies that Turn Writer’s Workshop Into a Makerspace, teaching in her studio and learned three key ways to bring the studio experience to all students.