If you were like me, I left student teaching having graduated from college with my teaching degree and entered a classroom ready to be the next Mr. Keating. I was ready to stand on desks, to inspire my students, to provide the most engaging lessons, and to suck out all the marrow of the teaching […]
What Should be the STAR Every Classroom? Evidence of Learning Read More »
First of all, Happy New Year to all of you reading this. A new year is such an exciting time. We all hit the internal reset button, having reflected on the past year and making goals for the next. Looking back at my last post of 2022, you will find that the first step in
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Tier 1 instruction… Remember that poem by William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow?” It’s the one you read and immediately said, “If this is poetry, I can be a poet.” If you don’t recall seeing it coming up through school, all you really need to know is the first line for this topic. It reads,
Want to fix Tier 1? The First Step is to Design for Learners, Not Students. Read More »
I heard a teacher say once, “I am not here to have relationships with students or even to be liked. I am here to teach them the content. That’s it.” There might be more educators out there like this who feel the same way. But, what if we discovered that the relationships we have (or
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If you are a fan of Friends, you are probably mimicking “PIVOT!” right now, and chances are, you will use it at least once in context in the next 24 hours. You’re welcome. If you’ve never seen Friends, or this particular snippet, I urge you now to find it on YouTube. You will not regret
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If you search the internet for “copycat recipes” you will discover dozens of sites that basically take all our favorite things we eat or drink at national restaurant chains and supply the user with the copycat recipe verison of the item. I mean, who doesn’t want to sit at home and eat some hot Red
What’s in the Secret Sauce of Successful Schools? These 2 Things. Read More »
So, below is an email I received from my editor at Taylor and Francis Press from Routledge. A minor change in the title, “Let’s Stop Teaching and Start Designing Learning: A Practical Guide.” (Changed the “quit” since we didn’t really want to give the wrong impressions when readers searched for book on Amazon.”) Looking forward
Just wanted to announce that “Let’s Quit Teaching and Start Designing Learning” might be coming to a bookshelf near you thanks to Routledge Publishing! With that said, it might be a while before I get anything posted. Hope to be back soon!
As my summer ends and I am back in the building, the focus of the new school year starts to emerge. We meet and discuss and plan on the typical “school” stuff, making sure everything is scheduled, in place, covered, planned for, etc. All that is important, don’t get me wrong. But now is also
Relationships are the Foundation on which All Learning is Built. Read More »
Just wanted to share with all of you… VOICES FROM THE #PRINCIPALPROJECT COMMUNITY Here’s How I Look for True Learning in the Classroom by Jason Kennedy | 3.16.22 When I reflect on my first 10 years of teaching, I know it would have been a completely different classroom if I’d known what we know now about student
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