Edupreneur, Founder & CEO of Let Them Learn LLC, Consultant and professional development specialist specializing in concept-based curriculum and instruction.
Michigan
Joined September 2010
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"Does a student who retook something have less knowledge than a student who mastered it the first time? I would argue no."
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Retakes Support Growth Mindset blog.behaviorflip.com/retake…
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A teacher’s greeting, a hug, and even breakfast snacks from time-to-time are just a few traits of a welcoming school. What are some ways your school creates a positive learning environment? #HowLearningHappens
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Increasing agency involves unlearning compliance, something that might take many of our students - and maybe us - some time.
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I don't like when people say, "we need to prepare our students for the real world." The truth is, some of them are experiencing more of a "real world" than we will ever know. What we need to do is prepare them for a better world.
via @mc_bossy
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"Curiosity may be an important, yet under-recognized contributor to academic achievement. Fostering curiosity may optimize academic achievement at kindergarten, especially for children with low SES." - @Ped_Research
Interesting read: go.nature.com/2LTbdCn
According to a recent study published in @nature, curiosity may be an important, yet under-recognised contributor to academic achievement, which when fostered may optimise academic achievement at kindergarten, especially for children with low SES: buff.ly/2LzgAn3
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1. Daniel Pink’s WHAT TO SUBSCRIBE TO: Newsletters on education. In honor of back-to-school season, here are 5 of my favorite free email newsletters on education. Read these and you’ll always be informed — and will occasionally be inspired.
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Even when students continually don’t seem to respond to a positive overture by you, the teacher, keep trying. The positive effects are occurring in their thinking if not in their immediate actions.
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Compared to rote memorization, students retain up to 25% more information when they try to answer questions themselves -- and are given feedback -- a new study finds. My latest article on @edutopia: edutopia.org/article/how-que…
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Fostering relationships with students who seem consistently disenfranchised is a matter of being relentless about having short, positive interactions with them.
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If a teacher does not have the awareness of when students are disengaged and execute appropriate strategies, he/she will probably not keep students engaged at any level. Executing this element can take many forms, like below. #NASOT
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These strategies are geared toward getting as many students as possible to answer any given question. #NASOT #studentengagement
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Homework is perhaps one of the most misused strategies in K–12 classrooms; it is too often assigned as a matter of routine. Here are strategies to assign it purposefully. #NASOT
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A5 Giving a student a zero tells them they don’t have to do it, the exact opposite of responsibility. #sblchat teapawt.net/garnet_hillman/status/…
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Educators are currently satisfied if students are simply paying attention; they should surely be challenged to, on a regular basis, make their classrooms places that students leave more motivated than when they entered. #NASOT
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Grading is a necessary part of a teacher’s life, but it doesn’t have to own you. 7 strategies to make it easier: edut.to/2pxions
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A few educators recently approached and asked me questions about the UN Sustainable Development Goals so I thought I'd better share this post again goo.gl/iDj1wy on how to use #designthinking with the UN 17 #TeachSDGs #SDGs #GlobalEd
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If students simply share their thoughts about the chunk of content they just experienced, they might not interact in a way that is rigorous enough to augment their learning. Here are strategies for processing content. #NASOT
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New grades 1-3 @ibpyp units starting after the Spring Break. Using the @globalsolo SOLO to guide and scaffold so that students' inquiries move them from surface to deep to conceptual thinking.
