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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…
Dog on Wheels
In this critical reading lesson, examine the interactive text and two videos in “Dog on wheels,” which focuses on STEM, through a Did You Notice? strategy to develop a KWLA…
Accelerate Learning by Building on Student Assets
The benefits of focusing on assets rather than deficits are profound. When students equate themselves with their deficits and failures, they can easily feel defeated. This can lead to disengagement…
#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…
#61 – How to Have Difficult Conversations
Privilege and the role that it plays in our relationships and communication styles implicitly and explicitly impacts how we manage difficult conversations. One of the things we often forget to…
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…
Make the World a Better Place!
In this critical reading lesson, students will synthesize a text—”Make the World a Better Place!” in English or “¡Haz del mundo un lugar mejor!” in Spanish—through Think-Alouds and structured dialogue…
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…