New Releases: Atypical Classroom Texts
Looking for a new classroom approaches and ideas that you can mull over this summer? These new releases might spark some ideas. Read Full Post >
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May 06, 2013
April 05, 2013
Metaskills Can Keep Robots From Stealing Your Job
A new book lays out five "metaskills" that can help prepare today's students for tomorrow's workplace. Read Full Post >
April 05, 2013
Student Playwrights Published in New Book
A new collection of student-written plays collects student voices from a Washington, D.C., theater program. Read Full Post >
April 05, 2013
New Book Suggests STEM Learning Through Play
A new collection of essays argues for playful approaches to STEM learning in and out of school, hoping to develop a new generation of innovators. Read Full Post >
April 04, 2013
Mission Hill Is What Theory Looks Like in Practice
Which theories of learning and development are informing the teachers we're watching in the 10-part video series, A Year at Mission Hill? Former teacher (and current doctoral candidate) Zac Chase has some thoughts. Read Full Post >
April 02, 2013
What Making Comics Can Teach About Teaching Comics
How best to define, describe, and teach graphic novels in the K-12 classroom? Why not ask authors? Read Full Post >
March 19, 2013
Implementing the Common Core and Mr. Potato Head
How can the Common Core be implemented successfully when the implementation of the Common Core (at least right now) leaves no time for professional learning, so teachers can make changes in how they think and plan for discovery, creativity, reflection, and fun. Read Full Post >
March 11, 2013
Design Thinking Comes to Independent Schools
Design thinking dovetails neatly with STEM goals and unites the various precepts of "21st-century learning" with relevance and the fostering of creativity; it's also a perfect fit with the "maker" movement. Read Full Post >
March 06, 2013
Are the Poor Too Free? On the Perils of Paternalism
Paul Thomas asks a provocative question this week. Are the poor too free? Are our schools providing students with tools and skills to foster their independence? Or teaching them to be compliant cogs in a machine whose levers of control they will never touch? Thomas describes the paternalism that has become central to modern education, as well as efforts to "reform" it even further. Read Full Post >
February 28, 2013
New Book Releases: Creativity and Critical Thinking
New titles offer frameworks for teaching creativity and critical thinking, the building blocks of "innovation." These books—and two more children's books on creativity—suggest a shift toward emphasizing hard work and problem-solving when conceptualizing innovation. Read Full Post >
