Reflection and Projection
Years ago, while on a plane heading home from a work meeting, I had the entire row to myself and time to think. Several ideas emerged about learning from the […]
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Questions Create Direction
With Thanksgiving this week, the school year will accelerate rapidly to close the calendar year and first semester. Right now, thoughts are already turning to academic or instructional changes needed
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Social Media and Teaching
For too long, educators have viewed phones and social media as a distraction in the classroom and failed to realize how they can be used as instructional tools. Phones and
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Epilepsy Awareness: What Schools Can Do
Children in school who have epilepsy face significant impacts. Because these students have seizures that bring unwanted attention to them, they often feel misunderstood as they are not invited to
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Epilepsy Awareness: Facts and Figures
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, and the Stride Professional Development Center wants to provide basic information for teachers and school leaders. The National Epilepsy Foundation (NEF) has graciously provided information
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New Content – Project Based Learning
The Stride Professional Development Center is proud to announce the launch of a new content series focused on the fundamentals of Project Based Learning (PBL). This series provides teachers strategies
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Teaching about Veteran’s Day
Many, if not most, schools are out of school on Veteran’s Day (November 11), but do your students know why they are not in school? This short blog will bring
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Establishing Norms to Promote Collaboration in PBL
Previously, the Stride Professional Development Center shared the first steps to establishing classroom norms for collaborative projects. These steps included naming individual needs, sharing with the group, asking for clarity,
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PBL Collaborative Discourse – Avoiding the Drift
Knowing that students learn better when the learn together, the Stride Professional Development Center offers suggestions to create stronger collaborative conversations and thus, an increase in student engagement and achievement.
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Five Instructional Best Practices
I absolutely love everything science-related and will do science for fun in my free time. In starting to teach high school science, my hope was to build student excitement about
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