If you've ever flown on an airplane, you know well the following 'in-the-event-of-an-emergency' directive by heart: 'Please secure your own oxygen mask first before assisting others.' --Flight Attendant (preferably one...
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When it comes to using podcasts in the classroom, I can see where you’re skeptical. What the heck *is* a podcast even, and How the heck am I supposed to align...
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If I could have one wish in my classroom, it would be for my writers to approach their essays the way they do their video games. Gamers will die a...
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Not all of our students will go on to be entrepreneurs. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t learn to think like them... *winks* We live in an entrepreneurially-minded world, where...
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Teaching argument in the high school classroom is pretty much a ‘must,’ right? Somewhere between core learning standards in academics and an increasing need for critical thinking and problem-solving in...
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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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