Flipped Learning: Teacher-Centered to Student-Centered

ISTE Standard for Coaches 4:3b “Establish trusting and respectful coaching relationships that encourage educators to explore new instructional strategies.” The flipped learning approach has steadily grown in popularity, especially in the la…

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Growth versus Fixed: Mindsets Matter

Think of yourself as a learner.  How did you get to where you are right now?  What belief system helped you get there?  Or what belief system adversely impacted your journey in getting where you want to be? In 2006, Carol Dweck, an Ameri…

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“There’s a tool for that!”

As a teacher, the words optimal, effective, most suitable, best, efficient, maximum and greatest often catch my attention.  I have discovered early in my career that time is of the essence. Time is something that I always need, and most often, not…

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Promoting Student Agency Using Technology

In the year 2014-15, the US Department of Education reports that there were 4.8 million English language learners (ELLs) in the K-12 population across the country (https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/el-characteristics/index.html#intro). Students identified …

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My journey to remote learning

Introduction The last project in my SPU masters degree in Digital Education Leadership (DEL) program is to apply the lessons I have learned to my classroom.  I am working on this practicum at the same time that the world is experiencing the Coronavirus pandemic in early 2020.  As a result of the pandemic, all the…

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The Times: They are A-ChangEd

A Sink or Swim Moment I have Bob Dylan playing in my head. His 1963 anthem references the huge social-political…

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Augmenting Learner Experiences for All Students

How can technology support teachers who want to offer their students augmented experiences for learning after mastery has been attained?…

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Teachers Coaching Teachers

Share the Love 2 The second standard in ISTE Standards for Educators: Leader requires educators to seek out opportunities to…

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