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I’m sure entering this week you had great plans for your classroom. Of course, Mother Nature certainly found ways to interrupt your map for the week! Now you might be asking, “Where do we go next?” When I asked myself this question, I immediately thought back to backward design. You may recall that backward design…
Educators are well aware of the benefits of students engaging in their learning experiences, but they often find it difficult to keep students focused and actively participating in the traditional classroom setting. In the book Turning High-Poverty Schools Into High-Performing Schools authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge encourage teachers to engage students in authentic, relevant,…
My senior writing class sticks in my memory as one of my favorite classes. I learned much about research and writing because the learning was personalized. I was able to research whatever I wanted, and I chose to study the performance and compositional life of the Italian violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini. I remember being excited…
Literacy is an essential skill for all students. As such, the development of literacy skills needs to be a priority in every classroom. In the book Turning High-Poverty Schools Into High-Performing Schools authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge identify literacy development as one of the effective practices for developing a pedagogy of possibility (p. 143). …
“Hope is not a strategy.” Those were the words I heard in a meeting recently, and I was taken aback by the force with which they were spoken. I suppose there was some level of accuracy to that statement if you use the dictionary definition of hope, which is heavily based on feelings and desires. …
One of the most well known possibility thinkers of the 20th century was Robert H. Schuller. He dedicated his life to building up others through expressions of hope and encouraging others to imagine the possibilities and pursue them. Dr. Schuller would often ask, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” and…
According to the most recent state report card, our school district serves a student population in which 50% of our students are economically disadvantaged. Very often students who come from economically disadvantaged homes struggle academically for a variety of reasons directly related to poverty, such as poor physical health, poor motor skills, inattentiveness, reduced curiosity,…
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