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Paula Ford is a Kindergarten teacher in Cupertino, CA. This post includes her podcast and conversation for Episode 4 with Barbara of the Rethinking Learning Podcast series about global project-based learning with her kinder kids.
Guest post by Shelly Vohra on her journey into inquiry. Shelly shares how she encouraged her learners to have voice and choice so they owned their learning.
Bringing Makerspaces into Classrooms to meet STEM and STEAM Post by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. @jackiegerstein, and Barbara Bray @bbray27 If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building. If there is someone other than the teacher managing the makerspace or there is …
This is Barbara Bray sharing Episode #2 of the Rethinking Learning podcast with Tamara Letter about finding kindness through Passion Projects. Tamara added a post below the podcast expanding on what we talked about and included links and a few pictures. Please take a moment, listen and read more about Tamara’s journey to bring passion to learning through …
Guest post: Susan Zanti, M.Ed. Secondary Instructional Coach, Loudoun County Public Schools, VA Education and the way we teach have changed. There is no doubt about it. Are teachers keeping pace with the changes? Is professional learning known historically as professional development (PD), meeting teachers’ needs? PD has been for too long, “One size Fits …
The Reggio Emilia approach is about the design of the learning environment that encourages children to become self-directed and independent learners. This post provides background and resources about Reggio.
Episode #1 with Andrew Bray Andrew shares in this first episode of the Rethinking Learning Podcast series how creativity, entrepreneurship, and teaching helped him learn. He explains how acting, music, teaching and beekeeping helped him find his purpose. Andrew Bray is multi-talented. I always knew that and thought I knew him well. You see, he’s my son. …
Guest Post by Tamara Letter, ITRT, Mechanicsville Elementary School, Mechanicsville, VA Tamara posted this blog originally on her blog Tiny Tech Tidbits about passion on April 19, 2017 and is cross-posting it here to share with Rethinking Learners readers. http:bit.ly/planningpassion This week is our first week back after Spring Break and our fourth graders were ready …
Guest post by Darren Ellwein, Principal of Harrisburg South Middle School, Harrisburg, South Dakota It has been well-documented that not much has changed in education in the past century. The classroom environment today has eerie similarities to the past. Students in colleges and universities around the world are trained to believe they are the holders …
Guest Post by Linda Ullah @linda_ullah, Online Instructor, Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California In 1970, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner wrote an article in The School Review (Vol. 78, No. 3 (May, 1970), pp. 429-434) entitled “Teaching as a Subversive Activity.” They point out the best educational environments are ones that …