Author Archives: Brian Grenier
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Effective Classroom Discussions
Five guidelines can build students’ higher-order thinking skills. Productive classroom discussions—those that enable students to invent, create, imagine, take risks, and dig for deeper meanings—can only take place in a climate in which students feel safe to offer their ideas.
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Effective Classroom Discussions
Five guidelines can build students’ higher-order thinking skills. Productive classroom discussions—those that enable students to invent, create, imagine, take risks, and dig for deeper meanings—can only take place in a climate in which students feel safe to offer their ideas.
Read the full article HERE
Building Motivation, Instilling Grit: The Necessity of Mastery-Based, Digital Learning
The potential of a competency-based (or mastery-based) education system powered by digital learning to customize for each individual student’s needs and bolster learning excites many. A question some ask though is: What about the unmotivated students? Won’t they be left behind?
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Building Motivation, Instilling Grit: The Necessity of Mastery-Based, Digital Learning
The potential of a competency-based (or mastery-based) education system powered by digital learning to customize for each individual student’s needs and bolster learning excites many. A question some ask though is: What about the unmotivated students? Won’t they be left behind?
Read the full article HERE
New Report: The Successes and Challenges of Educating Military-Connected Children
Study finds college and career readiness focus of Common Core a disconnect with students from Military Families since majority are under seven years old BOSTON – A remarkable education system has been created to benefit Military-Connected Children, enabling them to perform academically as well a
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On Charter Schools
If a charter school can provide a student with a deeper, more personalized, and more meaningful educational experience, then parents should, indeed, opt to enroll their child in a charter – parents have a moral obligation to do so.
The challenge public schools face does not lie in what charter schools are doing to us, but rather in what we must do for ourselves in order to improve and remain the schools of choice in our communities.