Big Thinkers: Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity
[VIDEO] The founder of Khan Academy discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.
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Why I Write? To Save My Sanity
The healing properties of writing are legendary, as writer and blogger Todd Finley reminds us.
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Tech Drive By
Blogger and technology curriculum specialist Nick Provenzano provides tips for performing a "Tech Drive By" for teachers.
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Why I Write? Sharing One's Saga is Important
Blogger Heather Wolpert-Gawron shares why she writes and how her reasons have changed over the years.
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Why I Write? (Hint: It's Not Because It's Easy)
In celebration of the National Day on Writing, Gaetan Pappalardo shares a poem about the trials, tribulations, and exuberance of the craft.
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Positive Discipline Strategies Yield Quick Results
[VIDEO] Classroom disruptions decline dramatically when kids are held accountable for their behavior to both their teachers and their classmates.
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The Power of Teacher Workshops: Advocating for Better PD at Your School
Teacher education instructor Rebecca Alber encourages teachers to advocate for more relevant professional development at their schools.
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Five Steps to Better School/Community Collaboration
A parent and community organizer shares some resources and great ideas, including the creation of a resource map and connecting with subject matter experts to connect to curriculum.
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20 Ways to Create a Healthy Faculty Environment
Educator and technologist Jac de Haan shares 20 tips for creating a vibrant and healthy work environment for educators.
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Twenty of the Worst Science Jokes Ever
In honor of Edutopia's 20th Anniversary, blogger Eric Brunsell shares his favorite (bad) science jokes. Please add your own! The more groan inducing, the better.
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Becoming a 21st Century School or District: Create Community Consensus Around the 4C's (Step 2 of 7)
In this second post of his series on 21st century leadership, Ken Kay discusses how to build consensus to support your vision.
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Twenty Tips for Managing Project-Based Learning
In honor of Edutopia's 20th anniversary, blogger Andrew Miller provides twenty tips on how to manage PBL. Enjoy and please add your own!
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An Open Letter to Techy Teachers
If you're helping other teachers, the best way to go is to listen, let them practice, and follow up.
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Using QR Codes in the Classroom
Some inventive ideas for using the latest mobile device scanning technology with students.
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Twenty Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment
Twenty tips for helping teachers create a safe learning environment.
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Teaching Copyright in the Age of Computers and Mashups
Blogger Audrey Watters shares resources and reflections for engaging students around thorny intellectual property issues.
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How to Implement Response to Intervention at the Secondary Level
Principal PJ Caposey writes that successful RtI is in the details of implementation and offers some suggestions.
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K-5 iPad Apps for Analyzing: Part Four of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
An elementary library media specialist reviews apps along the revised Bloom's taxonomy. Apps for Analyzing are reviewed in this fourth post of a five-part series.
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The Role of Mistakes in the Classroom
Journalist Alina Tugend finds that mistakes should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
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