Here’s a newsflash, Student Engagement Drops With Each School Year! Sadly it’s true and while not a new phenomenon it is one that not only affects daily k-12 classroom teaching but also has a hidden impact on college-readiness. With all the talk about Common Core and College and Career Readiness working on things like scheduling […]
This past October I attended the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) regional conference in Louisville, KY. Dr. Stephen L. Pruitt, Vice President for Content, Research, and Development for Achieve is leading the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and was the keynote speaker. I found his session very informative and received information on […]
Lately, Vincent van Gogh has been consuming my waking and sleeping hours. Over the holidays I saw an art exhibition, Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum. My sister in law purchased the tickets and invited me to see the show with her the Saturday before Christmas. There have been many Van Gogh shows, […]
I came across Infomous recently while reading my Diigo in Education group email and the idea that these two tools really make my search for new ideas and content very easy pressed me to write this post. I’ve been a Diigo-vangelist for years (well, since I discovered the social bookmarking tool in March of 2008), […]
…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
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
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…
