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When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage a growth mindset.
15 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves When Learning New Content Read More
A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.
Characteristics Of A Good School Read More
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
The Two Minds Of An Educator Read More
One goal for disruption in education could be the ongoing emergence of new ideas–new learning models, content, new strategies and thinking.
How Disruption Innovation in Education Creates Lasting Change Read More
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us.
Why So Many Students Think They Dislike Reading Read More
Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers Read More
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers Read More
While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
12 Barriers To Innovation In Education Read More
Shifts to create the classroom of the future include a shift from academic standards to learning networks and single modalities to blended.
Classroom Of The Future: Shifts To Move Tomorrow’s Learning To Today Read More
Whether a formal test or an informal observation, the most important question every assessment should answer is, ‘What now?’
The Most Important Question Every Assessment Should Answer Read More
Among the most pervasive myths about project-based learning is that students ‘doing projects’ equates to students learning through PBL.
12 Myths About Project-Based Learning Read More
From making an observation and drawing a conclusion to forming and improving a question, here are 27 strategies for critical learning.
30 Universal Strategies For Critical Learning Read More