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Street Corner Coaching: An Overview of How To Approach Assessment in Teaching
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Teacher Preparation
Learning Environments are Like Hop Scotch
When thinking about how to design courses or plan lessons, I implore you: watch this video. It’s a timely reminder…
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Are Cubicles the New Classroom? Maybe.
There is a lot of talk about the value of personalized and blended learning. But what does it really mean?…
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English Language Learning
An Opera Singer Shares His Secret to Learning Languages
So much of learning and teaching occurs through language. The more we understand the contours of languages–not just traditional languages…
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Computer Science Education
The 58 Minute Introduction to Algorithms by an Oxford Mathematician You’ve Been Waiting For
Nothing says nerd like desperately downloading a new BBC show about algorithms to one’s phone just before the subway goes…
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Teachers Need to Watch this Video About Stress and Learning–For Themselves and For Their Students
This video about stress and the brain should be required viewing for all teachers. As you watch it, think about…
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Arts + Letters
Yet Another Reason to Visit the New York Public Library: Authors’ Locks of Hair?
That’s not a typo. As shared in this recent New Yorker article, the famed library has lots of odd artifacts…
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History + Politics
Teach Like a Champion, 1950s Version
The term “classroom management” irks many educators. The two-word phrase ignores the heart and soul of teaching: it’s not about…
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Parents
Technolo-gee-what-the-heck-is-that?
Whenever we talk about technology in education, there seems to be an air of mystique and inevitability that emerges. I…
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History + Politics
President Trump on Education
Education is often an issue that politicians have strong feelings about. In recent decades, education has been framed as in a…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Computer Science Education
To Dabble in Data Science, All You Need is Paper and Colored Pencils
Now THIS is what I call “drawing” conclusions. (Eye rolls, laughs, swipes–I know.) Called Observe,…
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Health + Nutrition
4 Minutes on How Food Affects Your Brain. Go!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I’m convinced that schools can make a significant impact on student…
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Health + Nutrition
How to Boost Test Scores Without Changing Standards, Curricula, or Tests
Let’s make a bet. I bet we can see impressive increases in achievement scores without touching academics. I’m not saying…
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Back When They Sold Tonics to Cure Teachers’ “Mental and Nervous Exhaustion”
You know, sometimes you come across an old advertisement that you can’t believe is real. Yet here it is from…
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Assessment
Howard Gardner On the Limits of Assessments
I loved hearing Howard Gardner describe the limits of assessments, a kind warning to parents and the public to let…
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Health + Nutrition
Learning as Life-Giving
Spirituality and education are not often used in the same breath today, but perhaps they should be. Parker Palmer wrote…
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Health + Nutrition
Teaching Kids About Food to Save Their Lives with Jamie Oliver
Nutrition is something schools have mostly addressed with a requisite health class. Chef Jamie Oliver says that we have to…
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