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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Examples include release time, professional learning opportunities off-site, a premium parking spot, tickets to school events, books, and school supplies. You can also share stories across social media as a way to share successes more broadly, something I dive into deeply in Digital Leadership. & Ryan, R. Newstrom, J.W.

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10 Types of Digital Activities to Engage Teenagers

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The adolescent mind is essentially a mind or moratorium, a psychosocial stage between childhood and adulthood, and between the morality learned by the child, and the ethics to be developed by the adult” ( Erikson, 1963, p. I began teaching teenagers in 2004 in Texas. Motivating Teens to Learn English from Shelly Sanchez Terrell.

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The People and Moments That Define Us

A Principal's Reflections

My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. Due to the influence of my father and a passion to help as many students as possible succeed, I ventured into the world of educational administration in 2004. Obviously my journey continues.

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Pushing Learners to Think with Performance Tasks

A Principal's Reflections

Decades of solid research have laid the foundation for current studies that bring to light how we can improve teaching, learning, and leadership. As Tom Murray and I highlighted in Learning Transformed , this research has been taken to heart by schools across the world as they have transformed learning while improving results in the process.

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New book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory!

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am pleased to announce that my book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory: Preparing for the New Generation of Students is now available! My chapter is titled Multimedia Learning and the Educational Leader. Multimedia learning and the educational leader. Jenlink & B. Knight (Eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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Feelings During FLOW-Related Learning

User Generated Education

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. It can be as simple as replicating real life learning in more formal schools. I have discussed this in my post Natural Versus Unnatural Learning. Wonderment.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn.