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Start with Why: Putting Student Voice at the Heart of Improving
This guest post is written by Andy Jones, Director of Teaching and Learning at the American School of Brasilia (EAB), a pre-K-12 international school. The school employs an inquiry-based curriculum that culminates with the IB Diploma Programme for its high school...
Why are we learning this?
This post is written by Andy Jones, Director of Teaching and Learning at the American School of Brasilia (EAB). At EAB, each week a group of teachers embarks on two-hour Learning Walks where we wander our way through classrooms to essentially learn about learning at...
Three Truths for Post-COVID Schooling
This blog originally appeared on Corwin Connect and is a new collaboration between Julie Stern and Julie Jungawala. It’s spring of 2021 and schools across the world are wrestling with the challenges of bringing students back to physical classrooms...
What’s the Connection? A Fun Strategy to Boost Conceptual Thinking & Transfer
A guest blog by Kathy Beamer, LTT Extended Team Member In an episode of the LTT team’s podcast Conceptually Speaking, Julie Stern spoke about reading the book Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker and coming across the idea of what makes a great wine. She said in the book,...
Modern Literacies: Helping Students Navigate Our Complex World
This blog is first appeared on Corwin Connect, and is part four of a series on learning transfer. For more on teaching for transfer, see this first post, this second post and this third post. What are you passionate about outside of the long-standing disciplines such...
Disciplinary Literacy: Empowering Students to Be Knowledge Producers
This post first appeared on Corwin Connect. This blog is part three of a series on learning transfer. For more on teaching for transfer, see this first post and this second post. “Why do we have to know this?” It’s the age-old question students pose when they doubt...
Cultivate Self-Directed Learners with Five Key Shifts
This post first appeared on Corwin Connect. Every time we poll teachers about their highest priority, student engagement tops the list. How can we move beyond “party tricks” and toward self-directed learning? We’ve found five shifts that can...
Finding Balance: Aquire-Connect-Transfer Learning Sequence
This post by Trevor Aleo first appeared on National Write Center. Teaching writing often leaves me feeling like a perpetual Goldilocks. Some methods I try feel too rigid—removing student’s ability to cultivate their voice and hone their craft. Other methods feel too...
The Research Underpinnings of Learning That Transfers (LTT)
Learning That Transfers is a ground-breaking approach to designing lessons that prepare students to be adaptable, life-long learners in a rapidly changing world. Synthesizing dozens of academic papers and books, we’ve developed the Learning Transfer Mental Model, to...
One School’s Transformational Journey
This blog was written by guest Christine Haslett, Head of Primary at Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi, one of our partner schools. It first appeared on LinkedIn. How can we give students the tools that they will need to tackle problems that we don't even know about yet?...
Four Strategies to Try Tomorrow: A Fresh Perspective on Teaching During a Pandemic
This post originally appeared on Corwin Connect. Welp. We’re still here, in this not-so-fun space of teaching during a pandemic. Can a simple shift in mindset offer much-needed energy and impact on student learning? So glad you asked. Turns out,...
Culture, Cognition, & Narrative: Navigating Current Events in the Classroom
Note: This blog was written in March of 2019 on Trevor's personal blog site. A few updates have been made in terms of the framing and language, but it is largely unchanged to accurately reflect what occurred in his classroom. Discussing current events in our current...