In This Post If you create a space where your students feel confident and safe to experiment and challenge themselves, they will be your biggest cheerleaders as you begin to do the same! Keeping parents in the loop can make a lesson powerful in the classroom and even at home. Use interdisciplinary strategies to build more experimentation in the classroom. … Read More
The Simple Way to Reach Behaviorally Challenging Students
In this Post: Managing behaviors in the classroom can actually be pretty simple. Every teacher is capable of managing behaviors in their classroom. When we think about behavior, we tend to think about rules and consequences, but it’s not about that. Our classroom expectations need to be generalized to the real world. Setting effective expectations is the one thing that … Read More
Give Students a Voice and Teach Them to Build a Better World
In this post: We are crafting the future leaders of our world, what do we need them to be able to do? If we’re not asking our students what they need, we’re missing opportunities to be better. Feedback can be scary, but it can also be incredibly valuable. You can’t put every suggestion into practice, but you can listen, learn, … Read More
Progress Monitoring for Mastery Learning
Video Highlights Chad Ostrowski (@chadostrowski) breaks down progress monitoring in a mastery learning classroom. Progress monitoring can be your greatest tool to help manage mastery learning, hold your students accountable, and know what they need and when they need it. There are several ways you can monitor progress in your classroom, including tech and non-tech options. Progress monitoring needs … Read More
4 Ways Guest Blogging Can Help Your Career
Guest blogging is a great way to reflect on your practice and share your ideas to help others. Guest blogging can help grow your network and support innovation. Guest blogging doesn’t need to stress you out. If blogging or reading blogs is something you’re into (I mean you’re here, reading this right?) you probably know how much impact they can … Read More