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Category Archives: Educational Change
Formative Assessment: Exit Slips
Exit slips are flexible, low-stakes, high-impact formative assessments that provide meaningful feedback between students and teachers without relying too heavily on tests. Why Use Exit Slips? Reduce testing fatigue: Frequent tests can exhaust students and consume valuable teaching time. Reveal … Continue reading
Building Vocabulary Through Mime: The Power of Silence
Language learning depends on establishing a familiar context. Once learners can identify with the context, they can build on known words and language structures. Mime It / Talk About It is one way to do this. This learning strategy is … Continue reading
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Tagged crp, education, learning, mime-as-a-teaching-tool, reading, teaching, technology, the-arts-as-a-teaching-tool, udl, vocabulary-growth
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Building Culturally Inclusive Classrooms
Cultural identity is complex and layered, shaped by race, gender, socioeconomic status, community, sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, and more. Recognising this complexity is essential for creating classrooms where every student feels valued, respected, and empowered to learn and thrive. Building … Continue reading
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Rethinking Alphabet Charts
Take a look at common alphabet charts and think about the children in your classroom. Do they have the experiences or language background needed to connect each letter with the picture shown? Often, they don’t. There’s no such thing as … Continue reading
When Students Think They Can’t Read
“Non-reader.”It’s a label far too many students attach to themselves—and one that often sticks from an early age. By high school, that belief can feel permanent. The script below is a verbatim-style exchange between a workshop facilitator, teachers, and a … Continue reading
Appreciative Inquiry: Beyond the Apple’s Applications for Education
There’s a lot of interest in Appreciative Inquiry and its application for educational change. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) was designed by David Cooperrider as a strategic planning tool; its applications in an educational setting are creating a lot of excitement. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged AI in education, appreciative inquiry and assessment, appreciative inquiry and educational change, appreciative inquiry in the classroom, David Cooperrider, Educational Change, Growth Mindset, Sarah Lewis, school wellbeing initiative, Todd Conkrite appreciate inquiry
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Re-igniting professional learning with a challenge to think
The first 10-15 minutes of any professional learning session provide an opportunity to set the stage for thinking, wondering, and sharing. Before you jump into the content, grease the participants’ thinking cogs by demonstrating a discrepant event. Here’s an example … Continue reading
