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Accelerate Learning by Prioritizing Outcomes and Providing Just-in-Time Support
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the education system for over a year. This has led to concerns about unfinished learning and poor academic performance. As we move into a…
#64 – We Have 1:1 Devices: Now What?
Prior to the pandemic, more and more schools and districts across the United States were shifting to 1:1, meaning they had one device for every single student. As a result…
Accelerate Learning by Maintaining Academic Rigor and Cognitive Complexity
No matter which academic mountain your students are climbing, it’s important that the goals are rigorous and cognitively challenging. For most learning targets, there are rich instructional approaches that you…
#63 – Accelerate Learning With Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
As we face increasing disruption to our routines of living and learning, the conversation about access to learning has become more prominent across the US. In today’s episode, we explore…
#62 – Relational Capacity to Up the Rigor in Learning
The idea of building relationships has been a frequent topic of conversation in K–12 education over the last few years, especially when thinking about working with communities of color and…
Accelerate Learning by Climbing Mountains
For most mountain climbers, the thrill of the sport comes from conquering the physical and psychological challenges that they face while climbing up a mountain and then being rewarded with…
#60 – Are You Okay? Building Resilience and Making Time to Care for Yourself
For teachers, it’s easy to put students—their happiness, their emotional well-being, their mental health—first. When it comes to self-care—the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being…
#59 – Reengaging Students With School
In this week’s episode, we meet with our special guest—a high school History teacher and History Department Chair at New Visions Advanced Math and Science II in the Bronx—Ruben Martinez….
Wonder Workshop’s Class Connect
These new activities are inside of Wonder Workshop’s Blockly app and accessible with a Class Connect subscription. You’ll love Class Connect’s tools for assigning activities and tracking and reporting on…
Help Students Connect and Reconnect
Many of our students have not been in a large physical group of people for over a year. Returning to a brick-and-mortar classroom will likely be awkward for both students…
Accelerate Learning With Meaningful, Targeted Assessment
If you are practicing archery in a completely dark room with no orientation to the target, you will have virtually no chance of hitting a bull’s-eye. In fact, you probably…
#57 – The Role of Assessment in Accelerating Learning
This year, you may know less about what happened in the previous school year. As you start to build relationships with students, it’s important to ask questions about what they…
#56 – Empower Students to Accelerate Learning
At the start of an academic year, we know that our students will return to us after the summer break with some gaps in their learning. The approach that we…
#65 – Using Technology to Amplify Student Voice
In this week’s podcast episode, our team is joined once again by Theren Hayes—a National Board Certified Teacher and PK–12 Instructional Technology Specialist from the Tukwila School District in Washington—to…