The Joyful School
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about school culture and the roles that student behavior and classroom management play in helping create that culture. I came across a posting, “10 Belief Statements About Student Discipline,”...
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Learning Targets vs Activities
We’ve done some work this year on understanding the difference between a learning target and an activity. We primarily looked at this topic with literacy and math consultants as we participated in lab site...
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Speed Geeking
One of the (many) things that I love about our school is the emphasis on the use of technology as a tool for learning. And I love that one of the ways that our...
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Just A Few Extra Seconds
Isn’t context important? If you’ve ever been to an amusement park, you know that a long wait time is not a good thing. Queueing for hours to board a popular ride is no fun,...
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Where Are We?
Finding one’s way around Dubai can be a challenge. A road might have a name. Or it might not. A road can be nothing more than a sandy path with no pavement yet it...
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