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Announcing - Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
So some of you may have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet here lately. All my writing energy has been going to a good cause though! I’m happy to announce a new book: Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering … Continue reading
Respect: The Essential Ingredient in the Design of Modern Learning Environments
Cross-posted on GetIdeas.org Learning Trends series on Cultivating Leadership. A modern learning environment should reflect everything we know about building a community, developing young people, and providing a healthy environment for human beings. We know that people, no matter their … Continue reading
Guest post: Youth and Adults Transforming Schools Together
This guest post below is by Helen Beattie of YATST, a fantastic Vermont-based organization that helps schools create youth/adult participatory action research teams. Like Generation YES, YATST engages young people in leadership roles with a focus on creating models and … Continue reading
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The longer students stay in school, the less engaged they become
“The drop in student engagement for each year students are in school is our monumental, collective national failure.” Brandon Busteed, Executive Director of Gallup Education Here’s what he’s talking about: Read more about why the longer students stay in school, the … Continue reading
Where Will Future School Leaders Come From?
Great leadership is inclusive leadership, yet the largest stakeholder group in schools is often forgotten: students. Students are 92% of the population at most every school site. To be a leader, you have to lead 100% of the population, not … Continue reading
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Research roundup: The 14 Key Indicators that Measure STEM Progress
The National Research Council has just published goals for U.S. STEM education. Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education gives 14 key indicators for measuring improvements to STEM education and suggests that tracking these indicators will require asking federal and state … Continue reading
Creativity declines in children - what’s the reason?
From: As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity at the Creativity Post. “According to Kim’s research, all aspects of creativity have declined, but the biggest decline is in the measure called Creative Elaboration, which assesses the ability to take … Continue reading
Scalability as empowerment, not replication
More often than not when I hear about some wonderful teacher or promising educational innovation there is an immediate reaction of “well, that’s not scalable.” It’s a knee-jerk reaction, especially for Americans. We believe in big. We believe that bigger … Continue reading
To replicate, to remediate, or to reinvent - the 3 Rs of education
I meet a lot of teachers in my work. It’s interesting to listen to their stories about who they are and how they became teachers. I’ve noticed that there seems to be a real split in the ranks about the … Continue reading
Why math education is like the Titanic
Math education is failing too many students. We are owners and participants in an entrenched school system that is tough to change, and we could all list the thousands of reasons why. Big systems have a lot of inertia, like … Continue reading