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A Look at English Language Learners Across the U.S.
Do you know what is the number 1 native language for English language learners (ELL) in every state? The answer is not always Spanish. Whether you teach English in the classroom, have friends in class...
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‘The Lady Gaga Of Mathematics,’ Wants To Bring The Joy Of His Discipline To...
French Mathematician Cédric Villani is a fervent advocate for Mathematics — and spider brooches. Although he looks like he just wandered in from the 19th century, Villani is shaking up the world of...
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The Teenage Brain: Spock Vs. Captain Kirk
A teen’s body grows through radical changes during puberty. What parents do not notice are the complex but vital changes that are taking place in the brain. Ever wonder what’s going on in a teenager’s...
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School Gardens Help Kids Learn Better But Why Aren’t They Everywhere?
Garden-based learning is a proven teaching strategy that supplements learning through school gardens. This encourages kids to learn from programs, projects and activities that has a personal meaning to...
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Data-free Messaging App Jott becomes popular with US teens
Texting remains the most popular communications method among US teens and many are now turning to Jott. If you haven’t heard of Jott, go ask a teenager. Jott, a messaging app that works without a data...
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TEDxManchesterHighSchool
Guest Post: Parag Joshi — Lead Teacher of Truth Academy @Manchester High School, Manchester, CT The charge of the anthropologist to “make the strange familiar and the familiar strange” always struck me...
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Little Red Riding Hood, Reimagined in Beautiful Laser-Cut Illustrations
In her exquisite take on Little Red Riding Hood (public library), German illustrator and graphic designer Sybille Schenker blends the beauty of delicate papercraft with the Grimms’ original starkness...
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More U.S. Children Are Living In Poverty Than During The Great Recession
A startling report on child welfare revealed that more U.S. children are living in poverty than before the Great Recession. According to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, more than one...
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Making the Shift
Guest Post: Craig Gastauer Throughout my 20+ years of teaching, I have struggled to help ALL students learn deeply. Sure, a large number succeed but I cannot allow myself to be satisfied with that....
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Making Learning Visible: Doodling Helps Memories Stick
Does doodling mean students are not paying attention? Well, it’s time to change your mind. Instructional coaches Shelley Paul and Jill Gough had heard that doodling while taking notes could help...
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Making the Shift – A First Attempt at Asking Students to Co-Create Their...
Featured Blogger: Craig Gastauer If there was ever any doubt as to the importance of helping students personalize their learning experience, a recent conversation with a student convinced me of its...
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Future of Teaching: A Fork in the Road
By: Allison Zmuda What is the future of the teaching profession in our brave new world of personalization? Personalized learning can go down one of two paths — one that marginalizes and one that...
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Being Bullied
Students bullying other students continues to occur throughout the world. In the article from CNN, Kids get violent: China’s school bullying epidemic, the authors relate the story of Huang Tanghong, a...
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What Is Innovation? (And how do we teach it?)
What is innovation? As educators, we know it is a 21st Century Skill that we are tasked to teach students. School vision and mission statements often include the term as the ultimate goal. But without...
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Growing Healthy Food at an Inner-City LA High School
In an urban neighborhood described as “filled with auto shops and fast food restaurants,” students are signing up for an afterschool gardening program to learn how to grow and prepare fresh fruits and...
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Sparking Creativity in Education
We currently live in a time in which numerous complex challenges and questions are being asked in education. In this week’s highlight, Sparking Creativity in Education, Dr. Ron Berger interviews Molly...
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Successfully Working Through the Disruption of Change
Change. Few words conjure such charged feelings from all stakeholders as “change.” There’s the excitement of implementing something new with the potential to positively impact student learning....
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A Small Group of Students CAN Make A Difference (And What Does This Inspire...
In the small town of Keota, Iowa, the local community of approximately 1000 people operates a high school with a student body of 80 students. Since school funding generally operates on a per student...
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Helping All Students Prepare for Their Future
Since the beginning of the standards movement, coverage of those standards has been the first priority in a vast majority of the classrooms across the nation. Teachers cite their desire for students...
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Is Multitasking Killing Your Brain?
By Featured Blogger: Craig Gastauer I glance at the people around me. She has her email up on the computer screen in order to get through the abundance of emails loaded in her inbox. He has a window...
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