k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning. To move equity from theory to daily practice, I believe it must be embedded in every level of decision-making—from classroom instruction to staff meetings, from curriculum design to resource allocation.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 247

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning. To move equity from theory to daily practice, I believe it must be embedded in every level of decision-making—from classroom instruction to staff meetings, from curriculum design to resource allocation.

Interdisciplinary 144

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

We even interviewed residents to learn about challenges they face, resulting in my students writing letters to local aldermen, advocating for change. That said, spending too much time in whole-group instruction creates a culture of dependent learning, leveraging outdated practices like lecturing or rote memorization.

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Learning Feedback Testing Lecturing 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Although the Outlier topics are decidedly more staid, they may serve a higher purpose.

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Lecturing Textbooks Course Design Instructors 115

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

If you’re looking for a crash course in digital education specifically, recordings from Stanford’s lecture series on Education’s Digital Future are all available for free online. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 162

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset. Among those are Excel spreadsheet software, public speaking, and business writing. Last fall it raised $3 million in a seed round of investment, according to Braun.

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Art Lecturing Writing Curriculum 132

Teach Your Kids

MAY 6, 2025

Sitting in a classroom listening to lectures does not equal knowing how to read. Money = food (basic needs) Money = freedom (higher needs) Having been part of the homeschooling/unschooling world for nearly 10 years now, I’ve heard far too many stories of unschoolers who get to be 18 and still can’t read or write.

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Reading Writing Languages Language 96