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When you think about your experience as an adult, collaborating with coworkers, do you get an uncomfortable pit in your stomach? How often does it go just right? Over my many years and many occupations I have experienced productive, professionally Read More …
What does contemporary learning look like, feel like, and sound like when you have an opportunity to design a new school from the ground up? We took a tour of the Kevätkumpu Primary School (Grades 1-6) that was collectively imagined Read More …
Gaming is far more than just a form of entertainment. There’s good news in store for the parents of teenagers who spend hours each day on interactive, role-playing and single player games across all consoles and on the computer: gaming Read More …
Over this past weekend, I dug into the book Finnish Lessons 2.0 by Pasi Sahlberg with the intention of reading about the transformation of Finnish education before my trip to Finland at the end of September. Sahlberg asserts, “What the Read More …
First published on Connect & Learn: Preparing for the Future in Education and republished with permission. I had the honor of facilitating a panel discussion by a few of our high school students on digital citizenship this past spring. This Read More …
I was listening to Fast Company’s podcast featuring Dan Pink in which he describes that if you’re an employer, you might want to consider adopting a flexible approach when it comes to setting working hours. Not just because it’ll make Read More …
How do you create full student choice with a couple hundred of kindergarten through eighth-grade students and one art teacher? A) Pedagogy, B) Planning, and C) Personalized Learning. I am a K-8 art teacher, and I run a choice-based, student-driven Read More …
“Everyone put your chickens away!” It was, without a doubt, the first time I’d heard these words spoken in a classroom. Or anywhere, for that matter. I was on the road visiting New Holstein School District to get a firsthand Read More …
Writer and executive producer of Put It Into Words, Tim Salem is the Principal at ScottsRidge Middle School in Ridgefield, CT. He has 20+ years as an educator and administrator and was named the 2009 Assistant Principal of the Read More …
This post by Tara García Mathewson first appeared on The Hechinger Report and is reprinted with permission. “Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. Some Read More …