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Actually Achieving Close Reading With Digital Tools

Literacy / February 2, 2014 / New Teacher

As we think about how reading habits change & how to support students in print & digital spaces, I hope you’ll model reading practices.

How do we display data so that it is accessible? If teachers are given this data, what do they with it to improve outcomes for students?

We need to prepare students for a world where borders are blurred and learning about other cultures is as ubiquitous as learning to read.

2 Simple Strategies To Bring Technology To The Common Core contributed by Jeremy Hyler As the discussions about the Common Core

Teaching / January 28, 2014

Fire needs three things–a spark, oxygen, and fuel. Without any one of those things, we can’t stoke the fire. It will refuse to burn.

4 Strategies To Promote Smarter Grit In The Classroom by Jennifer Davis Bowman, Ed.D. Recently, “grit” has surfaced as one

Teaching / January 27, 2014 / New Teacher

Done properly, lightening the planning load through collaboration should enable teachers to focus on relationship-building.

How Can You Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention? Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to

A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom Disruptive thinking is a useful thing. It encourages difficult questions, conversations, and rethinking of trends

“Your test scores seem to indicate that your classwork isn’t rigorous enough. Do you include rigor in your class assignments?”

by Chris Yim, UClass.io Crowsourcing is huge in other industries, but has yet to affect education It doesnt make sense that teachers

Literacy / January 25, 2014

Robert Burns, ‘Auld Lang Syne’, & Resources For Teaching His Poetry by Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary of Education for Scotland Robert