There are no bells at Salt Lake City’s Innovations Early College High School, and no traditional “classes.” Students show up when they like, putting in six and a half hours at school between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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Tackling Will Gaps: When A Coachee Doesn’t Want to Change
One of the key transformational coaching tools is the concept I’ve termed, “Mind the Gap.” This idea (which I didn’t create) suggests that in order to effectively do something, we need knowledge, skills, capacity, emotional intelligence, and will.
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10 Characteristics of Professional Learning That Shifts Practice – Katie Martin
Across diverse districts I have asked teachers how they like to learn and what they want out of their professional learning opportunities. Over and over I hear the same kinds of responses and wishes for how they could learn.
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10 Training Design Tips for Instructional Designers and Trainers
You have completed the training needs analysis. You have documented the results and confirmed with the business unit manager that training is indeed warranted, because you have confirmed a lack of needed skills and knowledge.
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Leaders in Blended Learning Must Lean into Innovation
If the growth of blended learning is inevitable, does leadership matter? That’s a question I sometimes get after I give a speech about disruptive innovation and the advance of blended learning.
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How to hire technology leaders, not followers
Ban homework: It doesn’t help little kids learn—and it ruins their love of school
We have elementary education all wrong. It is time to ease up on our kids, an expert tells Salon If you are hoping to raise a child who always shares, who follows all the rules, and doesn’t act angry once in a while, you will want to skip the books by Heather Shumaker.
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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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