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Dear First Year Teacher by Hollie Hamaker

Dear First Year Teacher by Hollie Hamaker

November 30, 2020 | Leadership Performance Teachers

Listen Dear First Year Teacher,   Let me start by thanking you for joining the teaching profession. I am sure many have tried to scare you away. But you chose to become a teacher anyway.  Although the statistics vary, roughly 20 to 30 percent of teachers quit in their first...

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A New Way To Improve: What it Looks Like to Get 1% Better Each Day By Laura McDonell

A New Way To Improve: What it Looks Like to Get 1% Better Each Day By Laura McDonell

November 16, 2020 | Articles Leadership Parents Performance Students Teachers

Listen Last weekend I was inspired by a story. Chris Nikic became the first person with down syndrome to complete an Ironman triathlon (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and 26.2-mile run completed in under 17 hours). Completing an Ironman Triathlon requires grit, determination, perseverance and stamina that most people only...

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Change the Behavior, Change the Class (Part Two) by Hollie Hamaker

Change the Behavior, Change the Class (Part Two) by Hollie Hamaker

November 12, 2020 | Curriculum Performance Rewards Students Teachers

Listen In the second installment about changing behavior, we will talk about how rewards can impact your classroom. I highly recommend reading the first article before reading this one, as I reference it at one point a few paragraphs below. Some days, it seems impossible to create an atmosphere in...

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Reformation: Attitudes About Student Learning Ability

Reformation: Attitudes About Student Learning Ability

November 09, 2020 | Curriculum Performance Student Achievement Students Teachers

Listen We’ve all heard the idea that every student can learn, but believing that takes on a whole new level of faith when you’re in the trenches with struggling students. Our gut instinct is to get out of the situation and hand that student over to someone “more qualified” to...

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Reformation: Content Delivery

Reformation: Content Delivery

November 06, 2020 | Curriculum Performance Student Achievement Students Teachers Technology

Listen Lecture is incredibly difficult to get away from, isn’t it? Even in the earlier grades, it’s often difficult to let go and let discover rather than presenting all the information known to mankind in the areas in which we are certified experts. Science tells us that lecture is ineffective...

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Book Review: The Distance Learning Playbook

Book Review: The Distance Learning Playbook

November 03, 2020 | Organization Performance Planning Remote learning Student Achievement Students Teachers

Listen I was mowing the yard, listening to some education podcasts a couple of weeks ago, and listened to two different podcasters interview the authors of The Distance Learning Playbook: Teaching for Engagement & Impact in Any Setting.  First, it was Justin Baeder of Principal Center Radio interviewing Douglas Fisher....

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Reformation: Adjusting Responsibilities of Learning and Control

Reformation: Adjusting Responsibilities of Learning and Control

October 29, 2020 | Curriculum Organization Parents Performance Planning Students Teachers

Listen In the past, both the responsibility for learning and classroom control rested squarely on the shoulders of the teacher. If your students were loud and misbehaving, or if they failed a standardized test, you were not only held responsible for it in a figurative sense. Instead, you could lose...

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Reformation: Identifying Sources of Inspiration

Reformation: Identifying Sources of Inspiration

October 28, 2020 | Administrators Leadership Legislation Parents Performance Teachers

Listen One of the purposes of this series of articles was to talk about schools, leaders, administrators, philosophers of education, technologists, architects, and teachers who were visibly succeeding in education and making an impact. But our eleven schools are notably only a small sampling. Since beginning this series, we’ve heard...

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Reformation: Embracing the Outdoors

Reformation: Embracing the Outdoors

October 07, 2020 | Mental Health Performance Stress Student Achievement Students Teachers

Listen In this article, we’ll take a step away from our eleven leaders and reach a bit further out, because there are many schools around the world who have used the opportunity the pandemic has provided to be outdoors more. Pre-pandemic, many schools and districts in the U.S. added more...

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Part 2: Reformation: Indoor Learning Environments

Part 2: Reformation: Indoor Learning Environments

October 06, 2020 | International Organization Performance Students Teachers

Listen In our last article, we discussed how the Ron Clark Academy, Wooranna Park Primary, and Fuji Yochien embrace and have designed environments that are used to fulfill their mission statements and pedagogy. Here are a few more leaders in this area.  International School of Hellerup in Copenhagen The International...

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Answering "Why" in Professional Development

Answering "Why" in Professional Development

September 21, 2020 | Administrators Organization Performance Student Achievement Teachers

Listen Years ago, I was in a professional development meeting that tackled the topic of adding “essential questions” to each of our planned lessons. There was instruction on the language we should use, the structure of the questions themselves, and how to tie each question to state standards. Yet I...

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Elementary Focus: Dolls for SEL and Social Studies

Elementary Focus: Dolls for SEL and Social Studies

September 16, 2020 | Curriculum Health Parents Performance Stress Students Teachers

Listen There are few adults who spend any time with kids who haven’t heard of the “Toy Story” franchise. In one of the movies, the toys gather around a new playmate, Forky, created by the child who is the center of their world.The child in the movie makes this “doll”...

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