As a writing teacher, I'm sure your students write a lot, right? But how often do you give them time to 'make' their writing? How often do you let them...
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According to Holly Clark and Tanya Avrith, who offer up 10 characteristics of today's learners in their text, The Google-Infused Classroom, it's pretty standard practice for our students to speak...
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Just as you can count on fireworks on the 4th of July or leftovers on Boxing Day, you can expect a good ol' fashioned debate in the high school classroom....
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The following is part of the 'Remix Archives', a catalogue of articles I'm 'recalling to life' from my days of blogging over at the Global Pen (circa 2012, y'all!). Specifically,...
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It’s been roughly 30 years since Stephen Covey wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and it’s still, hands down, one of the most relevant reads of our time....
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According to Forbes magazine, freelancers are expected to become the workforce majority by 2027, in large part, due to the perks of a digital era. Things like automation, video conferencing,...
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Coined in the 1950s and popularized by his 1960s publication, Applied Imagination, advertising executive + businessman Alex Osborn's brainstorming concept has since made its way through the boardroom and into...
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The following is part of the 'Remix Archives' from my days at the Global Pen (circa 2012, y'all!). This archive involves those posts my audience has known-n-loved over the many...
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In a recent post, I talked about why our students are learning without us these days, and how it has a lot to do with an imbalanced emphasis of cognitive...
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If you're not learning with intention, then why are you learning at all? I remember sitting in our high school’s auditorium waiting for--what I expected to be--the usual, run-of-the-mill assembly...
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