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5 Ways to Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom Now

The CoolCatTeacher

has 25 years in education as teacher, instructional coach, elementary/secondary principal and K-12 district administrator. Teachers describe her workshops as meaningful and engaging as she models quality instructional methods that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.

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Getting the Brain Ready to Learn Math

The CoolCatTeacher

With over 20 years of experience in education, Liesl bridges her knowledge of how the brain best learns with her experience of teaching secondary math to create tangible strategies to support teachers and schools across the globe. Learn more about Liesl and her contributions to education at lieslmcconchie.com.

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Put your outside helpers to work

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here’s what my schedule looked like: Workshop 1 (all teachers and administrators) = reconciling competency-based education and deeper learning. Workshop 2 (leadership teams) = leadership challenges related to deeper learning. Workshop 3 (elementary teachers / instructional coaches) = redesigning elementary lessons for deeper learning.

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10 Ways to Grow as a Pedagogical Leader

A Principal's Reflections

Prioritize growth Attending at least one conference or workshop a year that aligns with a significant school or district initiative and reading one education book and one from another field, such as general leadership strategies or self-help, can yield powerful lessons and ideas. We then share collective insight while processing the feedback.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

Edsurge

toward the end of Writer’s Workshop. As an English as an additional language (EAL) support teacher at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand, I co-teach in four early elementary classrooms, supporting multilingual students who are developing their academic proficiency in English. But we took it one step at a time.

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Thinking Routines in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

And so, every year we conduct Project Zero workshops where we bring in teachers from all the surrounding areas. There’s videos out there so that you can see what this actually looks like in a classroom, whether it’s early childhood, middle childhood, if it’s secondary. She is the 2015 Tennessee Teacher of the Year.

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Building The Bridge Between Old and New Math

The Jose Vilson

Having a seat in college presumes that everyone at the college passed elementary school math, if not secondary math. Other schools have found ways to give parents and families math workshops so they have access to this stuff as well. Some of us even went to college.