k12 Digest
JUNE 23, 2025
I view every classroom interaction as a form of dialogue, and I pay close attention to how students respond emotionally and behaviorally to what and how we teach. Students have always played a central role in shaping my teaching practices—not just through formal feedback, but through their engagement, struggles, questions, and even silence.
k12 Digest
JUNE 23, 2025
I view every classroom interaction as a form of dialogue, and I pay close attention to how students respond emotionally and behaviorally to what and how we teach. Students have always played a central role in shaping my teaching practices—not just through formal feedback, but through their engagement, struggles, questions, and even silence.
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eSchool News
DECEMBER 14, 2017
In today’s diverse schools, this often means that special needs and struggling students receive much-needed extra support through help rooms or accommodations with testing, leaving little attention for gifted students. According to the US Department of Education, in 2011–2012 there were approximately 3.2
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along. Our online master’s degree in educational leadership program features a curriculum designed around the needs of working educators and builds on your current knowledge to help you advance your career.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. There is a theory in pedagogy that suggests that human beings cannot focus their attention on a single activity for more than 12 minutes.
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2017
While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews. In fact, the word “curriculum,” whether followed by “writer” or designer,” appears to resonate relatively strongly with viewers.
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
Pay particular attention to his chapter on “powerful ideas” where he describes how essential it is to find the enduring, transformative concepts that you want to teach and put those at the forefront of your design approach. Once you’ve read Papert, use the Understanding By Design Framework to structure your curriculum.
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