Author Archives: Brian Grenier
EPISD Flexbooks Pt. 11 – Creating Assignments and Quizzes
EPISD Flexbooks Pt. 10 – PLIX Activities and Simulations
EPISD Flexbooks Pt. 9 – Highlighter, Notes, and Translation Tools
Stop Innovating in Schools. Please.
Too often when we talk about “innovation” in education, we point to that new set of Chromebooks or those shiny new Smartboards as examples of our efforts to change what we do in the classroom.
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The Most Important Work of Pedagogy I’ve Read in Ten Years.
By its title, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too by Dr. Christopher Emdin isn’t for me.[1] I am indeed white folks, but I do not teach in “the hood.” I also teach college, rather than in the K-12 system that Dr.
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Here’s a Helpful Rundown of the Homework Debate
Homework is one of the most frequently and fiercely argued-about questions when it comes to education.
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How to create an exciting learning space
If you have a kid of your own who reads, where does he/she sit when reading at home? Everywhere and anywhere is the answer. They lay on the floor, they slouch on a sofa or sit upside down on a sofa hanging over the arm.
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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn’t a good match. Then she became a researcher for two professors at Harvard, which was interesting but lonely. Maybe a big corporation would be a better fit.
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