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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

As teachers transitioned back into classrooms, many abandoned video in favor of live instruction. Even though the flipped classroom encouraged teachers to record lectures and mini-lessons to send home with students for homework, video can be woven into the class period to shift control from teacher to learner.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. We want every student to reap the benefits of becoming effective writers.

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Washington State Releases K12 AI Guidance

The Thinking Stick

I am proud to announce the first of many documents being released by the @waospi on guidance for K12 educators in the state of Washington. This is just the first of many documents that will be coming from the AI Committee that I am honored to be co-facilitating in doing this work. of Education , and Teachai just to name a few.

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The Station Rotation Model Tip # 4: Encourage Offline Student Collaboration Using Talking Chips

Catlin Tucker

This is an easy way to promote student choice in the classroom and allow the conversation to feel more natural and free-flowing. Teachers indicate who the conversation captains are by putting an asterisk next to their names on whatever document they use to project the student groups.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement.

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Personalizing the Journey for Our Students

The Principal of Change

Translate this thought into the classroom. history class, students are given a document-based question on John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government (1690). Tier II support is the first layer of additional support when assessments indicate students need remediation of skills to become proficient, independent learners.)

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Technology Removes Obstructed Writers’ Barriers to Learning

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High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). If we look at a standard day in any classroom, the activities and assessments are all channelled through writing. They then may move on to reading a poem and answering questions.