How Showing and Telling Kids “I Believe in You” Can Empower Them at a School
For Equity - Build Relationships
Research has shown that minority teachers are likely to be more effective in producing positive academic and behavioral outcomes for same-race students. But you don’t have to have a shared race, background, or experience in order to connect. You can build relationships, set expectations, and work to keep your students engaged.
Unlocking Families' Potential
Partnering with families to promote learning starts with having a mindset that all families have much to offer, Harvard educator and researcher Karen L. Mapp believes. Mapp has long promoted the idea of educators working in tandem with families and has researched the impact of family engagement on achievement. In this interview she discusses how to get beyond "random acts of parent involvement."
FOR TEACHERS: Book Commercials
Bill Boerman-Cornell, an education professor at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, begins many of the Education courses he teaches with a book commercial. These book commericals can be found in this blog which is a great resource for teachers. The reviews include the citation of the book, the first few opening lines, a summary of the book, a recommendation and information about whether or not the book is likely to be challenged. You can search the blog for specific book titles.
FOR TEACHERS: Student Voice
In discussions about education, student perspectives are rarely heard. Watch this short video of Curtis, a young man growing up in Nottingham, England, to hear what he thinks about respect and relationships, how he feels about being labeled "a troubled individual” and what one teacher did so that Curtis started thinking and acting differently.
FOR TEACHERS: 20 Types of Learning Journals that Help Students Think
A learning journal is simply an ongoing collection of writing for learning–that is, writing done for the purpose of learning rather than the purpose of demonstrating learning. There are as many types of learning journals as there are ways to think, mainly because writing is a powerful strategy for both documenting and promoting thinking. In this article you will find 20 types of learning journals–in this case, learning journals that promote thinking.
FOR TEACHERS: Sparking Curiosity and Solving Real-World Problems
FOR TEACHERS: 4 Skills All Students Need
Here are four essential “soft skills” that may be best taught through a discussion of literature. The author of this article states that "our students’ education is incomplete without these skills. Students with these four abilities have the skills to create peace, stability, and hope where it is lacking. If that’s not worth pursuing,, I don’t know what is."
FOR PARENTS: What to Ask Your Kids When They Get Home from School
In between the buzz of soccer practice, music lessons, dinner prep, and homework, many parents like to ask questions to find out about their children’s day. Parents, want to be involved in their children’s lives and with the right line of questioning, can get to the root of childrens' days and be able to identify both their successes and their struggles in school.
FOR PARENTS: Seven Ways to Develop Grit in Your Kids
FOR SCHOOL LEADERS: Why Students Forget and What We Can Do About It
Great topic for a staff discussion - what to do about the “forgetting curve.” Knowing that forgetting starts as soon as learning happens—as Ebbinghaus’s experiments demonstrate—teachers need to be aware of these simple and effective strategies to help make learning stick.
FOR SCHOOL LEADERS: 5 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Positive
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