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A Bad Case of the “Jons”

A Bad Case of the “Jons”

“It’s your grade!” I barked at Sammy in a voice just shy of a yell. If I had said it any louder, I wouldn’t be able to justify to myself that I wasn’t shouting, though all of my students would have agreed that I was. If learning were a commodity and relationships a...
October 22, 2017
Nate Shankles
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A Pedagogy Worth Noting

A Pedagogy Worth Noting

Common Core Math has rocked the world of educators, administrators, parents, and students, but Hollenbeck Middle School in Los Angeles has embraced student collaboration for the win! In this KPCC article, we get a chance to see the impact of culture shift when the...
September 29, 2017
CUE
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Write, Review, Repeat with the Tsunami Writing Challenge

Write, Review, Repeat with the Tsunami Writing Challenge

Getting students to write, present their work, or even read can be hard work. Over the past few years, I have tackled different approaches to get students to present in my World Language and Computer Science classroom, including Iron Chef lesson design and Pecha...
September 20, 2017
David Platt
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Lesson Design: Never a Solitary Adventure

As a brand-new teacher, I spent a lot of time abiding by unwritten rules. It was not that anyone had informed me to follow these. After all, they were unwritten, and yet so much of my time was spent deciphering the decisions and instruction taking place around me so...
July 12, 2017
Pernille Ripp
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Get in the Game(ification) With Five Games

This year at the CUE 2017 National Conference there were a lot of sessions on the topic of gamification, a strategy for increasing student engagement by applying game design principles to a classroom setting. After my presentation, several people came up to me and...
April 9, 2017
Chris Hesselbein
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Own It!

We’ve all been there: the time when a district needs to adopt a new curriculum. We look at all the curriculums, we narrow them down, and finally choose one. The boxes start to roll in and we become overwhelmed by the amount of materials that come with the new...
January 15, 2017
Lisa Nowakowski
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