…an article I read today in Education Week, entitled Taking a Relationship-Centered Approach to Education and written by Tyler S. Thigpen prompted me to go back to the
Subject-Centered vs. Relationship-Centered Approaches
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The Value of Struggle: Promoting Authentic Learning and Growth Mindset
Are we teaching students that making mistakes, struggling, and even failure are inevitable parts of life? How are we modeling our own experience? When students get stuck on a problem, can’t understand a lesson, or have no idea how
Authentic and Project Based Learning
What makes our approach different is that it also incorporates three important and unique strands: literacy in service of content learning; artful thinking; and digital thinking. CTL believes project based learning provides an excellent opportunity to use literacy strategies like…
Thinking Like An Artist Scientist
I just came back from a two-day staff retreat at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. A lovely setting with 14,000 acres of woods, meadows and forest land festooned with art installations.
Whole Leaders, Whole Teachers
We are talking about a learning culture that is less about control and manipulation leading to the “correct” answers and more about tapping into the social-emotional needs of students as they learn how the content applies to their life in their communities.
Advice from Authentic Learning and PBL Experts
Recently I had the opportunity to record a Google Hangout with Jill Ackers, Primary School Director at the Spanish House in Dallas, TX, about the startup of her PBL Spanish immersion elementary and preschool. I’m excited to add this conversation to our Project Based Learning playlist.
Non-Fiction Articles Published by Lexile Levels
We know that for students to be ready for the complexity of college and career texts, all students need opportunity to closely read literary and informational complex texts with appropriate and necessary scaffolding.