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How to Create a Culture of Continual Feedback and Reflection in Your Classroom
Last week we discussed beautiful work, and how to ensure our students create it. And while it's easy for us to strive for beautiful work, it's just...
How to get students to submit beautiful work
What is beautiful work? This was the question on the minds of two extraordinary elementary and secondary innovators during this period of remote...
How to Motivate Students Without Awarding a Single Grade
Marc Shulman (website) of High Tech High had one of those students who seemed impossible to reach. He never turned in any homework. Tuned out during...
How to Lead With Inquiry, Not Content
When we return to our classrooms post CoVid 19, whether it's a blended classroom, or the one we left when this whole tragedy began, it will be...
How to Create a Co-designed and Co-Curated Classroom
Imagine your students, in firmly pressed suits and colourful dresses, standing next to their re- constructed models of ancient civilisations,...
How to Create a Connected, Interdisciplinary Classroom
When our students return post CoVid 19, they are going to require learning that moves beyond the four walls of our classrooms. As global problem...
The Twelve Shifts for Student Centered Learning
In a few weeks to the next few months, many of us will begin the biggest project of our lives. Re-opening our classrooms. Some of us have already...
Five Ways to Increase Collaboration Online
There is nothing worse than feeling isolated. At times it happens on our school campuses. But online, it happens all the time. Some students are...
Resources and Ideas to Further Engage Your Online Learners
Are you having trouble engaging your online learners? So is everybody else. (me included) Here are the five biggest challenges teachers just like...
Three Ways to Make Virtual Learning More “Human”
Are you sick of staring at a computer screen? I know I am. I learned recently that I have a two hour threshold for screen time. Beyond that and I...
The 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Online Meetings
For some of us this will be week #9 of online teaching. Are your eyes going batty yet? I know mine are. I'm reaching out this week to help you up...
How to Teach all Students Virtually with Sample Project
With classes temporarily suspended through at least April because of the coronavirus, I want to...
How to Engage All Your Online Learners
A few days ago I called up my brother in California to find out how Evie (his daughter/ my niece) was holding up with the recent school closures. He...
Helping Students Plan Their Online Learning Days
How do you schedule learning for your online classroom? Do you send a daily/ weekly schedule for students? Belabor for hours getting everything...
Industrial Revolution: Assembly-Line vs. Tradesperson
School (s): The Harbour School Hong Kong Project Summary: In a Grade 6 social studies unit, students learned about the industrial revolution and...
Inventions of the 15th Century
School (s): The Harbour School Hong Kong Project Summary: Students in grade 5 were studying inventions of 15th Century, which included the Gutenberg...
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