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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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Sharing Our Lives As Readers With Our Studentts - 0 views
Franki Sibberson As a classroom teacher, sharing my own life as a reader has always been an important part of my teaching. I believe that if we are to have authentic conversations with kids about ...
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...
Approximations - 0 views
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein As my son Jamin starts high school, he has new...
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...
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 ...
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...
10 Ways to be a light-hearted teacher - 0 views
10 Ways to Be a Light-Hearted Teacher While browsing on the internet I found the article "10 Ways to Be a Light-Hearted Parent" by Gretchen Rubin. I absolutely loved the article and I immediately ...
Digital Mentor Texts - 0 views
Over the last few years, I have been doing a lot of thinking around the idea of Digital Mentor Texts. I believe strongly in Reading and Writing Workshops to move all students forward in literacy. ...
Cultivating a Learning Environment - 0 views
Fill your school(s) with learners. When interviewing prospective teachers, ask "Tell me about something that you have learned lately." "How did you learn it?" "What are you seeking to learn more ab...
What Does Successful Project Based Learning Look Like - 0 views
The end of the school year presents us with an opportunity for reflection at Envision Schools. We take a final measure of students' progress throughout the school year, celebrate the many Envision ...
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...
Spelling mistakes cost millions - 0 views
Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' in lost online sales 13 July 2011 Last updated at 21:09 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Customer spending on a website can be cut in half by ...
How's your Resiliency-3 good things - 0 views
How's your Resilience? How are you feeling about what's ahead for you in 2012? This has been a pretty punishing period for many people who work in western economies and the New Year promises litt...
The 6 Best Online Writing Resources - 0 views
The 6 Best Online Writing Resources for Teachers Teaching writing can be a fun and creative experience, but it can also be difficult to keep up with 30 different students who are each working on t...
Strategies: Is This How We Read? - 0 views
Strategies: Is This Really How We Read? I had a teacher in a workshop recently who told me she didn't think she used any strategies when she read. I explained that, for proficient readers, we ...
I wonder… - 0 views
I wonder… About ten years ago I slowly stopped giving my kids very sequential directions. About five years ago I stopped giving rubrics. And in the past few years, with some classes, towards the...
First Weeks- Picture Books About Books: Young Learners and Reading Identity - 0 views
Katie DiCesare In the first few weeks of school, I am attempting to understand a whole new class as individual readers (yikes!). I am trying to discover where, when, why, and what they like to rea...
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Why "I Don't Do Tech - 0 views
Why "I Don't Do Technology" Isn't Acceptable The FAA Credit Union building, which stands in for the Crime Lab in "CSI: Miami". Image by Tony Hoffarth. Imagine an episode of CSI where the main ch...
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