Encouraging Creativity in Lesson Plans
“It can be incredibly easy to treat lesson planning like a checklist. Objective: check. Standards: check. Activity: check.” Education experts say there is a better way.
“It can be incredibly easy to treat lesson planning like a checklist. Objective: check. Standards: check. Activity: check.” Education experts say there is a better way.
In order to teach engage kids in conversations about security, it’s necessary to go beyond a simple list of rules, the do’s and don’ts of cyber hygiene.
At a time when it would be easy to scare them silly, educators need to empower kids instead. Kids need to know that change is possible.
Sure, kids will still act out, and we’ll offer practical tips on how to deal with that, but the current thinking on discipline is preemptive, rather than reactive. Change how ...
It isn’t easy to teach the history of decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada. We interviewed three gay men who were there and remember what it was like.
Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: Gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here.
This past summer, the Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania sent home an alarming letter to parents. If they didn’t pay off their kids’ school lunch debt ...
Before Emilie Ritchen Elementary School in Oxnard, California adopted one-to-one digital devices, it was chaos. Multiple apps on multiple machines meant kids were always ...
Briana Robinson is no big fan of suspension as a disciplinary tool. “They come to school to learn and I want them to be in school as much as possible. When a student is ...
Far from being a safe haven, schools can be a danger zone, especially for students walking amongst the crush of cars and busses that converge at drop-off and pick-up times.