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I have been reading a great deal about instructional strategies, differentiated instruction, and research on how the brain learns. Mind, Brain and Education is an excellent source for current research on how we learn and strategies teachers could implement to improve their instruction. As a result of some reading and thinking in preparation for workshops…
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This question, whether schools are capable of nurturing creative students, has been discussed in many articles, books, and TED Talks. Go back in time and listen to Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity? The basic premise in Sir Ken Robinson’s talk is that schools, the way they are structured and designed, “kill” the…
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The four minute video (see below) will give you a window into Westminster Schools’ efforts to design a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) program for students that helps them integrate their learning from different disciplines. Dozens of teachers are collaborating across K-12 boundaries to design and implement projects that have a STEAM focus. Many of these STEAM…
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Just finishing a book by Carol Ann Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners. This is the newest version, copyright 2014. I continue to be amazed at Tomlinson’s ability to capture the critical elements of a good education and an effective learning environment with simple and powerful images. One that has…
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We work continuously in schools to think about, design for, and implement collecting data that pertains to students’ cognitive achievement. In fact, if we include formative and summative assessment measures, we collect cognitive data weekly, daily and sometimes hourly. We are asked to report on the students’ cognitive development on a regular basis through report…
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