Teachers Change Students’ Lives AI can deliver a lesson; it can grade an essay; it can personalize a quiz. But there’s a growing list of actions it simply cannot do, and most of them are the things that actually change a student’s life. Think about it: Most of what we refer to as “teaching” is […]
Whether your students spend the day with you in an elementary classroom, rotate through periods, or move through 80-minute blocks, the question is the same: Is every minute actually working for learning? “Bell to bell.” You’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve said it. The idea is that every minute of class time should count: no dead […]
It’s Spring! Come spring, many teachers find themselves shifting into test prep mode, hoping to boost scores before the big day. But what if we taught in ways that prioritized retention so deeply that test prep became unnecessary? We can . . . and I’ll show you how. But first, for those of you staring […]
PBL Is Right for the Brain, Gen Z, the Alpha Generation, and You! How will you engage today’s students? Problem-, project-, place-, phenomena-, profession-, and pursuit-based learning . . . you pick one of the 6 Ps of PBL; your students will thank you. Solving real-world, authentic problems is engaging and lends itself to individualized […]
Dysregulation happens! . . . to everyone. It is an autonomic nervous system response to the question: Am I safe right now? It moves faster than the thinking brain because its role is protection, not reasoning. Stress can compound this response, and by the time the school day begins, every person in the building already […]