Guest Post via @BriteEyes49: “The Marble Run Challenge!”- STEMazing!

Sometimes you get tired of the “new” thing in education. Well, I was tired of hearing, reading, and/or discussing “STEM” or “STEAM”, whichever you prefer. I really didn’t understand what the big deal was until we participated in Jen Wagner’s “Marble Run Challenge.” Now don’t get me wrong, my kids code, we integrate tech, etc, […]

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Guest Post via @SwinehartJulie: Three Do’s and Don’ts of Implementing Readers Workshop

I’m just wrapping up my eighteenth year of teaching English Language Arts. For the first seventeen, I taught in a pretty predictable, traditional manner: assign a book, a reading schedule, give quizzes, poster projects, assign essays, administer exams, and show the movie. This year was so different. In September, I started the workshop model in […]

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Guest Post via @ReadersLeadPD: Warning: Failure, Sports True Learning

Warning:  I never successfully made cheerleading in High School.  I did play golf, joined the ski club and Mock Trial team, graduated successfully, went to college out-of-state. Now, I am an Arizona Master Teacher.   I know that drawing upon my experiences as an athlete every single day when instructing students and staffers is vital. […]

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Guest Post via @SwinehartJulie: Design Thinking and Choice in Summer Reading

Summer reading assignments are a hotly debated topic this time of year, especially when it’s tough to reconcile the workshop model’s foundation of student challenge and choice with something like a required reading program. What’s a teacher to do? It’s a given that students need to read over the summer. When teachers and students have built a […]

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Guest Post via @wmjackson: “TIGERTALK” Experience 2017 at Edward Waters College

“TIGERTALK” Experience 2017 at Edward Waters College by Prof William Jackson, Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM @wmjackson Twitter “Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.” Dionysius of Halicarnassus The experience to speak in front of large groups should always be provided to students in higher education, providing the opportunity to practice […]

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