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Micro-routines for Durable-skills, Part 4: The ‘So What?’

A student’s high school transcript shows their grades and credits, but it doesn’t show their mastery of skills. It doesn’t tell a college admissions officer or a potential employer what they can do. The skills they’ve spent years building, the very competencies that employers are so desperate for, get lost in a sea of GPAs and standardized test scores. This is a massively missed opportunity for our students, and it’s a problem that we, as educators, have the power to solve.

Micro-routines for Durable skills, Part 3: The ‘Show’

Without a clear way to see and track progress, these skills can feel like a fleeting exercise, something we do in class but that disappears as soon as the bell rings. For skills to stick, students need to own their growth.

Micro-routines for Durable skills, Part 2: The ‘How’

This is the heart of what we call a “micro-routine.” These are tiny instructional practices that take just a few minutes of class time, but when done consistently, they create a powerful shift in student learning and skill mastery. This approach is the essence of Pillar Three of the CTL model.

Time Management Routines

  In the previous post, we shared research about time management and its potential implications. We believe it is important to make sure our work is grounded in research and not anecdotal evidence. We do believe teacher experience is critical to helping students...

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The Research Behind Artful Reading

The Research Behind Artful Reading

Artful Reading, when implemented with fidelity in classrooms, will improve teacher practice and effectiveness and improve student outcomes in literacy. Shanahan, in his 2010 What Works Practice Guide (IES), points to a set of  six requirements for reading...

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Vocabulary Development in the Arts & Humanities Classroom

Vocabulary Development in the Arts & Humanities Classroom

Students often feel overwhelmed in the arts and humanities classrooms because the vocabulary is a mixed bag of words derived from other languages that seem simple but have substantial weight when considered in context or words that cross disciplines with similar, but nuanced meanings in each content area. 

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