Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.
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Terry Heick
Start With You: How To Make Good Teaching More Sustainable
If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
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It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom
Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.
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SRE And CEI: Easy To Use Writing Strategies For The Classroom
SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
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Shifting Focus From Ideas To The Effects Of Those Ideas
The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things.
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On Incrementalism As The Primary Method For Change In Education
Incrementalism is the process of change by small degrees. Gradualism. This is also the process education has chosen for improvement.
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The World Is Changing; Let Schools Change, Too
The world is changing — let schools become something that works for children, something that visibly improves the arc of their lives.
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How To Fake A 21st Century Classroom
Creativity is a 21st-century teaching and learning currency–and the best way to make sure it happens is to give points for it.
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How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do
So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.
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Grade Differently: 7 Categories To Create Learning Badges
The effect of well-designed learning badges is a kind of encouragement mechanic that helps students see their own progress.
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Will You Still Be Teaching Next Year?
Ask yourself if teaching is good for you. Healthy. Sustainable. What you want to do and be. A lot has changed in education. A lot.
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The Difference Between Logical Fallacies And Cognitive Biases
The difference between fallacies and biases is fallacies are real-time thinking errors while biases are pre-dispositions for future errors.
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