Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
Zoe Zmuda — a sophomore in high school — created this YouTube video as a culminating artifact to reflect on how education leaders (from classroom to consultant) pay attention to life skills as part of regular instructional practice. Points discussed Read More …
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This month’s newsletter features Sam Nelson, a middle school teacher in Vermont who has been prototyping with his students to co-create social studies curriculum. This video narrated by Sam describes how he created a design and student community that shaped Read More …
Who is in your classroom matters. To build relationships in the service of learning, we need to better understand who they are, where they come from, what their interests are, and what they dream about or aspire to do. The Read More …
Let’s engage in a storytelling challenge. What were some of your most powerful learning moments as an educator so far? What did you see in these stories? What are the patterns? What were the feelings expressed as you shared your Read More …
More and more frequently, our eyes are on a screen as we engage with a task at hand. Whether we are working independently to meet a challenge; catching up on personal, local, and global stories; or creating and sharing experiences Read More …
By: Allison Zmuda with Beth Campbell with Her 6th Grade Students from Hopewell Elementary School, Iowa What if we could better understand how to grow conversational competence from students? Quick back story. About a year ago, I ran a workshop Read More …
One of the seven elements of personalized learning — Cumulative Demonstration of Learning — is a collection and analysis of artifacts over an extended period of time that demonstrates progress toward goals. How do we leverage technology to help assist Read More …
by Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda If students leave our schools knowing more about their ability to learn and who they are becoming as continuous learners, they will be prepared for now and for the future. There is Read More …
When we suggest that a critical element of personalized learning is a cumulative demonstration of learning, we mean that in order for students to discover what they are capable of in the moment as well as how they grow over Read More …
