Which Content Is Most Important? The 40/40/40 Rule
The 40/40/40 rule: What’s important that students understand for the next 40 days, for the next 40 months, for the next 40 years?
A Teacher Makes 1500 Educational Decisions A Day
A teacher makes over 1500 educational decisions every school day, a constant juggle of manager, content holder, master communicator, and support system.
25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area
Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.
9 Rules For Digital Citizenship
We’ve offered a definition for digital citizenship. This graphic takes that idea and adds general advice for what it looks like in action.
A Teacher Writes A Brutally Honest Letter To Parents & Politicians
In an Open Letter to Oklahoma Voters and Lawmakers, Oklahoma teacher Steven Wedel writes a plea to parents and politicians.
20 Tips For A More Organized Classroom
Rather than pass out papers to the students all day, or try to ensure they receive important notes, invest in a mailbox for the classroom.
6 Rising Technology Trends In Public School Classrooms
To safeguard future economic prosperity, the US has to ensure that its curriculum helps students develop the skills that they need.
4 Things Innovative Schools Have In Common
Innovative schools connect with the outside world, view students as people, design creative learning spaces & encourage critical thinking.
What To Do On Twitter: 50 Ideas For Teachers
This post shares 50 ideas for what teachers can do on Twitter, from listening to students, following trends, and messaging experts.
You Have To Create Understanding By Design
To achieve understanding as an educator, you have to help students ‘by design’ come to realizations that they own and appreciate as insightful.
How To Save Time Teaching With Technology
While using technology is easy, mastering it–using it to save time, reduce busy work, and improve student understanding–is another matter entirely.
How The Culture Of Achievement Is Hurting Our Schools
The Culture of Achievement is having a dangerous effect on education, focusing on easily quantifiable & measurable results: test scores.
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