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How Online PD Eased A New York District’s Transition to Remote Learning

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Murphy: Over my career, I've learned that taking a top-down approach to implementation without acknowledging other perspectives and inviting key stakeholders leads to failure—no matter how fantastic your initiative is. When we rolled out OTIS, there was so much positive feedback from teachers about how simple it is to use.

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The Greatest Enemy of Creativity in Schools Isn’t Testing. It’s Time.

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The kind of assessment I talk about most is dialogue with others, or feedback, and then dialogue with self The second stage is elaboration, where students will mess around with their initial questions and their engagement with materials. We can actually do a self-assessment feedback session. We would never ask in a P.E.

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Students Are Not Well, and It's Our Job to Save Them

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I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom. Also integrating nutrition and healthy lifestyles into our physical education can improve physical wellness. More interactive workshops.