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Homebound Parenting – Two Ingredients for Thriving
What are you reevaluating? Parents and teachers are struggling right now, all around the world. How do we do THIS? How do we parent and teach, at home, in a crisis? What do we hold on to, and what do we let float away? We’re all reevaluating so many things right now. What’s workingI’m getting… Read more
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Building Self-evaluative Mindsets and Tools
I had a teacher recently ask how handle it when students ask if their work is “good”. She wants to help them, but doesn’t want to be seen as the ultimate authority on what is “good”. Firstly, “authority” and “expertise” are not bad things, and we don’t want to remove that experience and skill from… Read more
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Assisted Accountability – The True Flipped Classroom
Eric Mazur introduced the flipped classroom to much interest a couple of decades ago. The idea—and a very good one—is that the time we have together in class is precious, and is being totally underutilized by a one-to-many dissemination of information. In the internet age, Mazur thought, why couldn’t we do the lecture outside of class,… Read more
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Value-based Learning: From Bake-sale to Brilliant
Schools all over are trying to figure out how to provide real-world learning for their students and many are beginning to realize how much a regular school schedule gets in the way of curating authentic learning experiences. Part of “real-world” is rethinking how we structure our time. I have previously written about the importance of… Read more
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Redefining Academic Rigor
There are two kinds of academic rigor. The standard kind is measured in number of hours spent; in the amount of predetermined information memorized and regurgitated. It involves running fast to jump through the hoops put before you. It involves being handed problems and showing you can follow prescribed pathways to solve them. It involves… Read more
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