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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

I tend to refer to these as norms that everyone can get behind. A foundation can then be established for more personalized approaches such as pedagogically-sound blended learning or self-paced activities. Below are the three recommendations I have been providing to help districts and schools persevere during the pandemic.

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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

As a learning community, all members should play a role in providing thoughtful and substantive feedback. Peer feedback is most effective when it is focused, and students have clear guidelines for giving feedback. That way, students can reference the rubric as they work. Peer Feedback Choice Board.

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We Run a Hybrid School. Here’s How We’re Adapting Our Schedule for the Times.

Edsurge

Through tailoring schedules to meet the needs of our students and their families, we’ve been able to increase engagement and encourage ownership of learning. We ended that article with a Spiderman reference: “With great power, comes great responsibility.” Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group.

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Is it really “blended learning” or is it just “learning”?

The Principal of Change

.” Maybe the analogy doesn’t connect, but I feel the same way about the term “blended learning”, in which many of our students might just simply call “learning” To me, it would be the equivalent of referring to “reading a book” to “paper learning” It is just learning.

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Back to School with the 4 C’s [Aligned Activities]- SULS0123

Shake Up Learning

At the heart of the Dynamic Learning Model are the four Cs: creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. Foundational for learning transformation, the four Cs help prepare students for the future. I often refer to the 4 C’s as the “ Superfoods of Learning.”

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Summer School May Offer Opportunity for Students — Just Not Yet in Person

Edsurge

I think we were hoping to see, or were curious to see, if districts would say, ‘This is where we can test out a blended model,’” says Gill, referring to the mix of online and in-person instruction that might become necessary as COVID-19 infections continue. But blended learning options are few and far between.

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Three simple steps for creating lesson plans

Hapara

Here are some helpful tips for creating effective lesson plans to improve student learning and your classroom dynamic. Pinpoint the learning objectives, starting with the desired outcome first. para Workspace is a learning platform that seamlessly allows teachers to post lessons online and organize the content by learning objectives.

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