A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 20, 2023
I often get asked both through social media and in person how to become a consultant. For various reasons, educators are enamored by the keynoting circuit, facilitating presentations at both national and international events, and coaching in school systems. Initially, I had to pause and reflect before responding as I wanted to be very clear on how my journey was more complex than it might seem.
Geography Education
AUGUST 28, 2023
When the Dutch wanted to expand their territories, they turned to the North Sea to create more arable land for Dutch farmers. Likewise, Singapore has reclaimed land to expand their territories. Over 95% of Egypt’s population live along the Nile River and its fertile delta, and the population (over 110 million people) continues to grow and is seeking new options.
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Pedagogy to Share
AUGUST 21, 2023
Thessaloniki August 2023 This week I will be presenting at the 20th Biennial EARLI Conference , hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Macedonia, Greece. The conference theme is “Education as a Hope in Uncertain Times” I will be presenting a 90-minute ICT demonstration and sharing my work with Nearpod interactive presentations.
Thrive in Grade Five
AUGUST 19, 2023
Having a little time at the end of class is something my students look forward to because they have an opportunity to do fun five minute social studies activities. If you find yourself with a few extra minutes of class, you definitely don’t want students to have a free-for-all! That’s a classroom management nightmare. ? Use those precious extra minutes for purposeful, engaging review!
A Lesson Plan for Teachers
AUGUST 2, 2023
As teachers, we often find ourselves faced with classrooms full of students with a range of abilities, interests, and learning styles. While whole-class instruction can be effective in certain situations, small group lessons can provide more targeted and personalized learning experiences for our students. Let’s explore some best practices for facilitating small group lessons in […] The post Small Group Lessons: 8 Best Practices for the Classroom Teacher appeared first on A Lesson Pla
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 15, 2023
Part II: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part two of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my first blog in this series on using the “I see, I think, I wonder” routine. Metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.
A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 6, 2023
Do you like being told or directed to do something a certain way even though you know it doesn’t align with your innate strengths, interests, or learning preference? Pretty frustrating, right? It becomes even more of an obstacle to growth if you know how to demonstrate understanding but aren’t afforded different pathways to articulate a response. Choice matters when it comes to learning if that is the ultimate goal.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Anthropology for Beginners
AUGUST 17, 2023
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 15, 2023
Digital Promise is excited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its partnership with Verizon for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program. What started as eight schools in four districts in 2013 has grown to nearly 600 schools and more than 100 districts in 2023. To support the exponential growth, the team has expanded from only a handful of employees a decade ago to an astounding 55 today!
ED Surge
AUGUST 30, 2023
Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways. But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 22, 2023
Part III: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part three of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 30, 2023
This story was produced by The Associated Press as part of a series, The Math Problem, from the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms that is documenting the math crisis facing schools and highlighting progress. Members of the collaborative are AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times.
History Tech
AUGUST 14, 2023
I was on a quick Zoom call the other night when of the high school teachers casually mentioned that his first day back with students had gone pretty well. Seriously!? Cue the jaw drop.
Education Elements
AUGUST 29, 2023
The constantly evolving education landscape makes nurturing educators' development a crucial priority. The success of schools and districts depends on designing successful, meaningful, and innovative professional development experiences that ignite teachers' passion for continuous improvement.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 14, 2023
Digital Promise conducted interviews with learners and workers who were actively experiencing learning transitions to explore how LERs could be used to support them along their journeys
ED Surge
AUGUST 31, 2023
When Gorgette Green-Hodnett wrapped up her 21-year career in high school education a couple years ago, her family members celebrated. Not only with well wishes for her new job as a college professor in Maryland, but also with relief that she would no longer be working around the clock. Her family had been glad each time she’d had a non-teaching role throughout her career, but this time her husband was excited at the prospect of finally taking a vacation outside the summer months.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 5, 2023
Metacognition, often referred to as “thinking about thinking,” is a cognitive skill that empowers learners to reflect on their thought processes, learning strategies, and understanding of a concept or subject. By becoming metacognitive thinkers, students develop the capacity to monitor their learning, recognize gaps in understanding, and be strategic when attempting to solve complex problems.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 31, 2023
Each weekday, children and teens hospitalized in the psychiatric unit at the University of North Carolina’s Neurosciences Hospital spend a few hours in a part of the building that doesn’t look like a hospital at all. They leave their locked unit and head down to UNC’s Hospital School on the second floor, where three classrooms are furnished with desks, smart boards and white boards.
Learn for Living
AUGUST 28, 2023
As the fall season is rapidly approaching and the new school years begin across the country, it seems like we are all thinking about “fresh starts” and “new beginnings” at this time of year. Aside from New Year’s, the fall season is also a great time to set new intentions for how you want to show up in the world. To help you kick off your autumn on a positive note, we have three tips for you to show up as your “best self” this season…and consequently get back to living your #bestlife!
Education Elements
AUGUST 1, 2023
Schools across the country work tirelessly to provide positive educational experiences for their students, staff, and the larger community. Yet, there are times when they fall short of this goal. They may experience high teacher turnover, a poor school climate, and low student achievement, just to name a few challenges. In our work, we see that with the right support systems in place, we can collectively improve school performance and meet the needs of students and educators.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 21, 2023
Portrait of a Graduate describes skills and competencies within a community that contribute to a life of well-being, fulfillment, and economic security
ED Surge
AUGUST 29, 2023
If you’ve ever been a student, then you’ve probably done a group project at some point. And you most likely also have a horror story about a group project that went terribly wrong. That trend was clear when EdSurge recently took a microphone to one campus and asked several students to share their group project horror stories. Every student we talked to had one.
O-Level Geography
AUGUST 26, 2023
Why did the Bhutan government impose a US$200 daily fee in the past? What are the impacts of the development of tourism in Bhutan? How does the government contribute to Sustainable Tourism?
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 28, 2023
This story on math scores is the first in a series, The Math Problem, produced by the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms tha t includes AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times.
Ben Newmark
AUGUST 25, 2023
Some years ago, one of my friends attended a talk by the then Manchester United manger Sir Alex Ferguson. He spoke about how he’d changed his management style. When he began, he said, he sometimes shouted at his players at half-time if he thought this would lead to a positive response. Even back then it was a risk– he knew he had to stay in control and keep his temper, because if he went too far one of his grizzled hard-men might shout back or even physically go for him, which would have a negat
Let's Cultivate Greatness
AUGUST 24, 2023
Once something because a requirement, it often loses its joy. It seems like that’s precisely what’s happened now that the Citizenship Test is a high school graduation requirement in many states. During the 2010s, one specific group, the Civics Education Initiative, made it their goal to have all 50 states make passing some form of the US Naturalization Test (the official name of the test) a high school graduation requirement.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 10, 2023
Digital Promise shares four strategies for ensuring smoother adoption and integration of education technology products within districts and schools
ED Surge
AUGUST 24, 2023
Summer is a time for educators to do some learning, and there are plenty of conferences and workshops throughout the season. But one national event for teachers this month had a very unusual trait: It was started and organized by students. The free online conference, called AI x Education , aimed at getting teachers at colleges and high schools up to speed on the latest AI tools like ChatGPT, and to encourage them to try to use them this fall.
O-Level Geography
AUGUST 26, 2023
National Day celebration dinner at the open space next to Hougang MRT station. This is after the pasar malam which just ended. How does community events help to develop a sense of place to the residents?
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 29, 2023
As a principal for 21 years, I take pride in supporting my students. I’m the kind of principal who knows where students work, how many points or goals they scored in their last game, what part they played in the musical and how well they did on their last test. Maybe if our representatives got to know kids in their districts like this, they wouldn’t take away crucial resources that give them the chance to thrive.
TCI
AUGUST 24, 2023
TCI’s free science activities will keep students engaged in science all year long. Explore the list to find seasonal science experiments for elementary and middle school classrooms. Halloween (October) Don’t be afraid to teach with TCI’s free science lessons for elementary and middle school! For Halloween, explore free lessons about gooey oobleck and real body snatchers (parasitoids) that turn their prey into zombies.
Achieve the Core
AUGUST 24, 2023
My child can’t read yet, Mrs. Armstrong! Is my daughter already behind? We just started kindergarten! How many times have we as teachers been asked this question: “Is my child behind?” Well, behind what, exactly? Behind whom? I remember being asked this question by a very concerned and anxious parent at the start of the 2021–22 school year. This parent, like many others, had kept their child home from preschool due to the pandemic.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 16, 2023
The Center for Inclusive Innovation and Paradigm Cyber Ventures, with support from IBM, are implementing an Inclusive Cybersecurity program across 11 districts
ED Surge
AUGUST 22, 2023
For decades, a nonprofit group called The Moth has produced workshops, events and a popular radio show where people tell transformative stories from their lives. And in 2012, the group started working with high schools, coaching students to turn their stories into polished orations. This year the nonprofit has started sharing those student stories in a new spin-off podcast, called Grown.
Strange Maps
AUGUST 24, 2023
If you know one thing about 12th-century Arab cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, it is that he is the author of this wonky world map, which is often included in modern atlases as a prime example of medieval mapmaking skills. That invites comparisons that do him no favors. Among the hyper-precise maps in today’s atlases, al-Idrisi’s looks like a child’s drawing.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 28, 2023
Making choices can be hard, but in a high-quality early learning environment, young children discover how to make wise choices one step at a time. Teachers help them understand how to work out a problem, make a plan to solve it and, finally, do something about it. When made poorly, the wrong decision can have devastating consequences. Early childhood advocates like us understand this.
Becoming a History Teacher
AUGUST 23, 2023
Photo by Thirdman on Pexels.com When you are a teacher everyone thinks they know how to do your job and suspects they could do it too. By virtue of having been a pupil themselves at one point, the school environment and job of teaching feels sufficiently familiar to be open to conjecture. Every year I listen to prospective teachers discuss with conviction what they think a good education should look like.
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