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Bret Biornstad

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Brainology SCHOOL MATTERS Brainology Transforming Students' Motivation to Learn Carol S. Dweck Winter 2008 This is an exciting time for our brains. More and more research is showing th...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 21 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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shared by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11
     
    to integrate History Buff into the classroom: History Buff is a website that can help history come to life through story, virtual tours, audio and primary source news papers. I suspect that most students fall into the judge-a-site-by-it's-cover category like me. For this reason, if I was using it in my classroom, I wouldn't send students directly to the website to do a lot of digging on their own. Instead, I might direct them to the portion of the site I knew we would be using through a classroom website, wiki, blog or use a Weblist or Symbaloo to link to them. It is amazing how changing something as small as the entry point into a site can change a students attitude about the site (heck, I'm like that too!). Once I got into History Buff, I really appreciated the connection to primary sources and the way that the "actual" newspapers bring history to life. I REALLY liked the hoaxes in news section and suspect that students will get a kick out of it to. Your kids will be asking, how can people be SO gullible? These kinds of stories are wonderful discussion starters and will make students think critically about their own news media. As a fun extension, have your students write their own hoax news stories. Okay, now for demystifying the navigation of this site. See the itty bitty brown words in the left sidebar that are all squished together? That is the navigation. For real. I didn't notice it at first either! Go ahead and click on one to test it out…not so bad when you know what you are looking for, right? Right. For your convenience, I'm linking to each page of the site below so you can easily find what you are looking for. :) Online Newspaper Archives Historic Panoramas Reference Libraries (audio resources, hoaxes) Primary Source Material State Facts Interactive Quizzes Tips: History Buff has a newsletter you can subscribe to if you are, you know, a history buff. Just enter your email in that box under the header and clic
Bret Biornstad

Learners not Knowers - 0 views

Learners not Knowers Its interesting that the quote I shared with my students the other day was, "The learners shall inherit the earth, while the knowers will be beautifully equipped to live in a ...

learning

started by Bret Biornstad on 04 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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Fostering Resilience - 0 views

Fostering Resilience: ALL Kids Have a Future cc flickr photo by TMAB2003 I have been pondering educational matters…specifically, the challenges schools face in addressing the needs of ALL student...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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All that is val - 0 views

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professional development

started by Bret Biornstad on 17 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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An Open Letter to Principals: Five Leadership Strategies for the New Year | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 02 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 02 Jan 12
     
    Change begins with a no-excuse mentality. Don't waste one more minute pondering what could be. There is a revolution going on right now in learning, and it is up to us to lead the way. Please share any leadership strategies that are making a difference in your building.
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Children Who Can Read, But Don't - Tips for Parents - 0 views

Children Who Can Read, But Don't.. Studies show what common sense tells us: the more kids read, the better they read and the more pleasure they get out of reading. Unfortunately, the reverse also...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 30 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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The educational value of creative disobedience - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 22 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • What is supposed to be the most critical learning period for shaping children into the leaders of tomorrow has evolved over the years into a stifling of the creative instinct—wasting the age of imagination—which we then spend the rest of our lives trying to reconnect with. The time has never been more ready for systemic change than right now, and we’ve never had better tools to achieve this level of creative disobedience, to successfully prepare our children for the big challenges that lie ahead. It might be uncomfortable and take a bit of work, but our future depends on this radical change in order to survive.
Bret Biornstad

Catching Readers Before They Fall an interview with the authors - 0 views

Franki: Pat and Katie, you've both done so much work in learning how best to support struggling readers. Can you share any new learning or thinking you have about this topic? Pat: Sure. I'll go ah...

reading interventions

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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The Medium Is the Medium - 0 views

The Medium Is the Medium Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school year. They...

reading technology

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Sixteen Qualities Of a Good Teacher - 0 views

Sixteen Qualities Of A Good Teacher Photo by Moving Mountains Trust Good teachers are rare, and few people, including school administrators who hire teachers, know what it takes to be one. Altho...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Today U R U - 0 views

Teachers in Tiaras ("Today You are You") A famous quote by the children's author Dr. Seuss says, "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you." I like t...

bulletin board idea

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Letter writing to the future - 0 views

Letter writing seems to be a lost art, but it is still a standard. I personally love writing letters of appreciation, love, or simply just because as often as I can! To teach letter writing can be ...

writing letters

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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A Few Great Ways for Educators to Convert PDF to Word for Free | Tech the Plunge - 0 views

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shared by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11
     
    It never fails-you're gathering materials for an upcoming class or presentation and all you can find is the pdf version of an important document. You need to make some changes but that is not easily done in PDF format, so what do you do?
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Interventions for Co - 0 views

Interventions for Comprehension - Details: Skill- Comprehension: Details Intervention - Visualizing Source or adapted from - "Strategies That Work" by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis Mat...

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started by Bret Biornstad on 27 Aug 10 no follow-up yet
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Evolutionary Lessons for PLC's - 0 views

Evolutionary Lessons for PLC Principals When Theodore Roosevelt lost his final race for the presidency in 1912, he was crushed. A bold and determined man who had conquered in nearly every person...

started by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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