12 Ways to Get Started Post-pandemic: Teachers have a heavy lift with student achievement, executive function, and social and emotional learning. The one-shot PD offered on PD days and after school no longer meets their needs. They need answers — lots of them — on a continual basis. The more we learn about students’ needs, […]
The original post has been removed. It explored ways that both teachers and students can use AI. However, after learning of some (not all) AI apps that represent themselves as so real that young people are considering them to be friends, and that a student committed suicide allegedly in order to be united with what […]
The pandemic started a domino effect of issues that are still affecting schools today. Principals must attend to so much, and there are so many urgent items nagging at them, that it is sometimes hard to focus on instructional leadership. As principals face the challenge of moving their schools forward, they must shift to empowering […]
Some points I’d like to make: I could go on but suffice to say that everything schools are striving for can be accomplished through authentic curricula that engages and empowers students toward efficacy — that ability to tackle any problem or challenge with success! What It Looks Like: 1 – A collection of PBL tasks […]
Consider the following three examples . . . A teacher introduces a topic to the entire class. After the lesson, students engage in a variety of activities to explore the topic further: an online simulation; an online search for information; a small-group meeting to discuss the topic; or a live, in-depth lesson from the teacher. […]