What does the world’s most successful YouTuber have to say about creativity, learning, and education? [TIMESTAMPS BELOW]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsM9HUoIfnQ&t=0s – Meet Mr. Beast! He’s the world’s most successful YouTuber….
Are you ever bothered by school emails or communications stealing your personal time? Here are two radical suggestions that have been game-changers for me. Let me know what you think. TIMESTAMPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPdsEOt0tfk&t=0s -…
I’m writing this post from a delightful cafe in a quaint little touristy town near my home.
The sunshine is pouring in through three walls of windows.
Steam from my freshly brewed coffee wafts lazily upward.
A creamy slice of carrot cake sits waiting…
Love or hate the policy decision — speaking, teaching, and breathing just became physically easier for exhausted educators across North America.
Welcome to SPARKS: mini-segments intended to spark your thinking and ignite your practice. These short…
The reality: not every student has submitted the required products for a particular learning activity by the due date or deadline. What should the responsible teacher do?
Here’s how some teachers respond:
They update checklists of unsubmitted…
I knew that if we were to improve this student-teacher relationship and get learning back on track, this student would need to feel fully heard by the teacher. And the teacher would need to feel heard by the student. A meeting seemed like a logical…
We recognize that our assessment beliefs and practices fundamentally shape every other aspect of learning that occurs in the school environment.
As such, we engage in constant professional learning and seek to apply evidence-based thinking to our…
Following the thread, I had a startling realization. It’s a thought that I’m sure has crossed many educators’ minds over the last two years.
We don’t even let our middle schoolers behave like this.
Welcome to SPARKS: mini-segments intended to spark…
How could you be so sure that your wonderful class or school community was X … only to hear that others view it as Y?
Simple. You’re doing lots of great things within your own walls. But you’re doing a really bad job of telling your story.
Welcome to…
Dale Carnegie once said that “A person’s name is to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language.”
And so it is. If we want to build meaningful culture, community, and relationships in our schools, we need to learn our students’…
