Next year I will be the parent of a school-age child. Wow that makes me feel old! From my son’s experiences in pre-school I can already tell that his education is going to be vastly different from my own. But how different? I imagine that I will be uttering statements like, “I don’t remember learning…
Hundreds of Resources, Just a Click Away We Want to Help You Let’s be honest. Teaching is not what it used to be. With the adoption of Common Core State Standards, teachers are now required to do more than ever before. Teachers, did you know Common Core meant you would be sitting on planning committees,…
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you can never get more time.” This popular quotation strikes a chord with most teachers. The school bell rings every 45 to 50 minutes. It keeps our day, our students, and our work always on the move. Thus, the most common conversation in…
The Well-Crafted, Well-Taught Lesson gets even better! What’s new? Explicit Direct Instruction: The Power of the Well-Crafted, Well-Taught Lesson was published in 2009, and since then authors John Hollingsworth and Dr. Silvia Ybarra have forged a path through the Common Core State Standards, visited hundreds more classrooms, and fine-tuned their EDI strategies. Now they are…
What makes one teacher’s class a joy and another’s a torture? Were some people simply born to teach? As we remember our favorite teachers, I think we remember a je ne sais quoi, an indefinable quality, about them most. When we ask the world what makes a teacher great, the word “passionate” comes up every time.…
How does a human being learn? That question has intrigued and stumped educators for thousands of years. We all know we learn, but how does it happen? If we knew that, then we could maximize our learning, right? The problem is there are so many theories of learning. To make sense of this, we can…