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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

By fostering a culture of continuous improvement through pedagogical observation, educators engage in dialogue to share insights, plan for instructional improvement, self-reflect, adopt effective strategies, and refine teaching practices. Faculty members are mostly reluctant to voluntarily participate in peer observation.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

By fostering a culture of continuous improvement through pedagogical observation, educators engage in dialogue to share insights, plan for instructional improvement, self-reflect, adopt effective strategies, and refine teaching practices. Faculty members are mostly reluctant to voluntarily participate in peer observation.

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eLumen Introduces Professional Services to Help Institutions of Higher Learning Lead Change and Improve Outcomes

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Institutions seeking a project charter and plan to enact transformational change can benefit by working with eLumen to evaluate readiness, work on strategic goals, and implement a plan for execution. It is relevant to colleges and universities in the process of creating and/or revising curriculum or evaluating the need for pathway creation.

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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide

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The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. At STAR, PBE is apparent in every aspect of the school, from the food served to the community-based service projects students design and complete every year.

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This Large District Uses 4 Questions to Teach Every Educator How the Brain Learns

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We decided to build our work on a solid foundation that started in 2012, when we created a school culture framework around mindsets. MBE could also be used as an anchor in discussing instruction, assessment, equity, social emotional learning, teacher evaluation and more.

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A Guide for Creating an Empathetic Learning Environment 

Faculty Focus

This requires thoroughly self-examining personally held biases and evaluating our social connectedness (Dewsbury & Brame, 2019). For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning.

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A Guide for Creating an Empathetic Learning Environment 

Faculty Focus

This requires thoroughly self-examining personally held biases and evaluating our social connectedness (Dewsbury & Brame, 2019). For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning.

Learning 111