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What Teachers Really Want

If teachers are to transition to the kind of blended learning that has been found to work best for today’s kids, we need trust, time, and trained mentors to work out what what we need to do.

18 days ago by Susan Lucille Davis

Learning

Vote! American Pioneer of Teaching Award

PublicSchoolOptions.org President Beth Purcell, a parent and former teacher, announced the organization’s annual American Pioneer of Teaching Award contest here in a guest post. After narrowing the nominations down to 10 innovative finalists, they have turned the competition over to the online community to vote for ...

24 days ago by Getting Smart Staff

Learning

What are Teachers Responsible For?

Where does the current emphasis on accountability come from? I think it comes from a desperate need for equity and justice – from the awareness that has been raised by the national high-stakes testing of students that there is a very real and tragic difference in the outcomes of poor students versus those that are m...

25 days ago by Marie Bjerede

Learning

Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

No one could be more surprised than I was when one of my sixth-graders said, after we had slogged through Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29” at the end of our poetry unit, “Hey, this is fun. Shakespeare ought to be an elective.”

one month ago by Susan Lucille Davis

Learning

Movie Review: Why are America’s Students Failing at Math?

It is not a difficult question to answer, a lot of students hate math. I know “hate” is a strong word, but when some children are asked about math, they start to sweat, shut down, and avoid math at all costs, due to negative experiences in the past.

one month ago by Scott Williams

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Leadership

Blended Learning & The Teaching Profession

Just in time to bust a myth that reared its ugly head in the closing keynoteat the ASU/GSV Summit, Digital Learning Now! today released the "Blended Learning & The Teaching Profession."

one month ago by Carri Schneider

EdTech

7 Student-Tested Digital Storytelling Tools

Last month, in my classroom version of DIY BYOD, my fifth-graders dove into the world of digital storytelling.

one month ago by Susan Lucille Davis