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Top Posts of 2018

A Principal's Reflections

There are many reasons I continue to blog regularly, but the biggest is trying to add a practical lens to many of the ideas we either see or hear about on social media. Never discount how your ideas and experiences might positively influence the work of others. Prepare them for anything! Back to the whole writing thing.

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Think You Know What Culturally Responsive Teaching Is? You Might Not

Edthena

The term is often incorrectly used interchangeably with other classroom pedagogies and practices such as trauma-informed care. Culturally responsive teaching is a framework and approach for how to teach. I call this getting [students] ready for rigor so that they can carry more of the cognitive load.”. How to achieve this?

STEM 111
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ACT Says Grade Inflation Is a Serious Problem. It’s Probably Not.

Edsurge

Grade inflation is growing, and grade point averages alone are not enough for colleges to make informed decisions about applicants without an objective measure of competence—like, say, a standardized test. In March, the largest four-year public college system in the U.S., California State University, also stopped requiring students to submit them.

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School Counselors Have Implicit Bias. Some Are Ready to Address It.

Edsurge

After seeing how uncomfortable issues of race made his colleagues at his previous school, and how much those incidents—and the silence that followed—hurt students of color, he knew that the work he really needed to be doing was around anti-racism and implicit bias. I’m like, ‘We’ve gotta say something. They were protesting.

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The Newest Teach for America Corps Is Preparing for a Year Like No Other

Edsurge

As the pandemic persisted, Bravin wasn’t wondering or worrying about how Teach for America may not be the experience he’d originally signed up for. Ryan Bravin, 2020 corps member in Eastern North Carolina “If anything I think I was more committed to joining,” Bravin says. “A He leads discussions on literature from behind his desk.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page .

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Can Administrators Lead Innovation Without Blended Learning Experience?

Edsurge

He’s been a math teacher, an administrator and conducted a doctoral research study on the skills and training needed to implement blended learning effectively and as such, he’s got advice for district admins on how to connect with all of those respective groups. But there’s hope, he adds. Here’s a Q&A excerpt from the transcript.