Empowering Schools to Build Student Ownership and Stronger Learning Communities
Empowering Schools to Build Student Ownership and Stronger Learning Communities
Elementary school teachers have a unique opportunity to instill valuable life skills in students from an early age. One such […]
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Goal Setting, Growth Mindset, Self-Directed Learning
Administrators and instructional coaches can encourage their teachers to set up learning stations in their classrooms. Incorporating learning stations is
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Growth Mindset, Self-Directed Learning
A Small Shift That Sparks a Big Impact In education, we talk a lot about mindset — in students, teachers,
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Growth Mindset, Instructional Leadership, Self-Directed Learning
This post is the follow-up to the one called Top-Down Rubric Design where I explained that there are two approaches to effective
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Formative Feedback, Rubric Design
There are two approaches to rubric design: top-down and bottom-up. These concepts could be very useful to learn about before we get to
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Formative Feedback, Rubric Design
I recently conducted a presentation for higher education faculty on improving student learning in online courses. The presentation was based
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Instructional Leadership, Online Learning, Self-Directed Learning
Inquiry-based learning is a process where students engage in making real-world connections to content learning through high-level questioning. Asking questions, conducting research, and
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Growth Mindset
For much of the 20th century scientists believed that only young brains can grow and by the time we reach
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Growth Mindset
“Growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your
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Growth Mindset