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By H. Alan Seibert and Curtis Hicks Alan Seibert has held leadership positions at the high, middle, and elementary levels in Salem City Schools over a 29 year career and is currently in his 14th school year as Division Superintendent. Read More …
While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson plan design that involves one master planner and “lean into” design that feels less structured, Read More …
The sun blazed, warming the October morning air. It glinted off the still waters of the cranberry bog, where more than fifty visitors were gathered around several high school students to learn about the harvesting process. This was the scene Read More …
This school year I began to lead a book study on the Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement and found myself powerfully reminded that our students need to not only form learning networks in our physical classroom spaces, Read More …
When I was twenty years old, I was standing in Benton Hall at Miami University, talking with my education professor after our 7 p.m. night class. While talking with my professor, I remember having a passionate conversation about the importance Read More …
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 …
Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary opportunities. With so many students planning to be engineers, architects, accountants and the like, I have Read More …
Rick Gifford knew that a worksheet where students define words and then use them in a sentence wasn’t the most engaging way for them to learn and practice math vocabulary. He wanted to spruce things up and give his students Read More …
Writing this on the second day of school, I don’t mind sharing that I am happily exhausted! This feeling is the result of my own passion for teaching and the collaborative energy happening inside my classroom. To those of you Read More …
Student led IEP meetings are meaningful opportunities for students to develop agency, self-advocacy skills and be powerful members of their team. Yet, many educators, families, and students become overwhelmed in how to begin to cultivate this as part of regular Read More …