Student YouTube-Style Learning
Jim Marshall, Promethean CEO Students of all ages are relying on touching screens, and YouTube-Style video options for learning in school and at home. The ability to touch a screen in order to scrub...
View ArticleChanging Learning Environment Perceptions
Ken Royal There has to be a change of perception, as to what a learning environment needs to look like, and that doesn’t necessarily mean that the physical appearance of the classroom needs to change....
View ArticleWhat Is a Digitally Fluent Administrator?
Amber Teamann As we enter into a new era of leadership, it becomes increasingly more difficult for a principal to be the “everything” person on the campus. Ensuring quality instruction, “managing” the...
View ArticleFuture Ready?
School leaders around the nation have been focusing more on being Future Ready. More than 2,000 superintendents have already signed the Future Ready Pledge. Some have taken advantage of the Free...
View ArticleSupt. John C. Carver: Future Ready
Supt. John C. Carver Superintendent John C. Carver (@JohnCCarver) leads the Howard-Winneshiek Community Schools in Northeast Iowa (Cresco). He has never been stranded on an education island, or shied...
View ArticleDifferentiated & Interdisciplinary Instruction
Ken Royal Any conversation of differentiated instruction is usually followed closely by the assessment connected to it—usually a pre- and post-test model, with plenty of check-ups in between. It is...
View ArticlePatrick Larkin: Instructional Technology Top 6
Assistant Superintendent Patrick Larkin Patrick Larkin (@PatrickMLarkin on Twitter) has been a classroom educator, building principal, district leader, and always an outspoken advocate for students,...
View ArticleMany Points of Learning
There should be many points of learning, in every learning environment, and for every learning day. We may have gotten a little too comfortable after the 1:1 acceptance successes of the recent decade,...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Teaching Reading
I know from experience, from having done it, that teaching reading is a tremendous challenge, and that first grade teachers need to be experts at teaching students to read. Teaching reading does not...
View ArticleGlobal Learning Community
There is a need, beyond words, for a global learning community movement committed to action. Since the beginning, communities have been in a position to foster learning. Individuals in a community can...
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