It’s easy to forget the dynamic of risk-taking in the world of K-12 education, where success is mapped in a staircase of standards and academic achievement is key to opening doors. This video poem and reflective blog dare educators to stretch the boundaries of what is possible, and inspire students to do the same.
More important than any solution is our ability to understand the problem we are trying to solve, and our flexibility to adapt and change to solve it.
Learning begins at the edge of what we don’t know. How do you find your edge, continuously, and empower others to do the same?
Engaging students in writing for a real audience and purpose is motivating, AND it enhances the QUALITY of student writing. Busy educators want easy ways to make it happen.
Here are four powerful ways to engage students in writing to CCSS expectations for a real audience and purpose.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
It is tempting to fixate on answers and expertise, and imperative we focus on questions, especially the ones that reveal our greatest opportunities to learn. How are you a continuous learner? How do you help students thrive as life-long learners prepared to excel in our rapidly-changing world?
From my first year as a teacher, where I struggled tremendously, to now where I lead professional learning across our nations’ schools, I find a consistent theme: teachers want to learn.
It’s not apparent in every staff room, or even publicly in the culture of many districts and schools. Yet when leaders connect to the core of why people teach, and engage them in meaningful inquiry around questions that matter, teachers fire up about learning.
