Posts by David Ross

Future of Learning

The Growing Need for Online Teachers

COVID-19 will surely mark a dramatic change in the teaching practices and employment of many teachers. David Ross highlights some of the many opportunities to be explored in online teaching.

EdTech

The Competing Mindsets of Technology

This month's edition of chronicling the author's return to the classroom focuses on the challenge of shifting students’ mindsets toward mobile technology from entertainment to productivity.

Future of Learning

The Intellectual Hunger of Teachers

D. Ross. This month's edition of chronicling the author's return to the classroom focuses on the persistent intellectual hunger of American teachers.

Project-Based Learning

The Persistence of Misconceptions

David Ross, formerly the Senior Director for the Buck Institute for Education and CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, continues a monthly series chronicling his decision to go from classroom to boardroom and back again.  In this edition, he focuses on the rugged persistence of misconceptions.

SEL & Mindset

Teaching in the Time of Fire

David Ross examines how Northern California wildfires have impacted teaching and learning and shares strategies for how to lessen the trauma of power outages, evacuations, and pervasive fear.

Project-Based Learning

The 3 Preconditions of PBL

The lure of the classroom is a monthly series chronicling the author’s decision to go from classroom to boardroom and back again. In this third edition, he focuses on the preconditions for doing high-quality PBL.

Project-Based Learning

Can Learning Be Both Powerful and Boring?

By: David Ross A couple of weeks ago, I opened the door to my new classroom and faced a line of sixth graders eager to meet their teacher. I don’t know who was more nervous: me or them. This was my 11th year of teaching, so the nerves should seem…