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Engaging All Learners: Expanding High School Options for Success

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High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Today, as education leaders, you’re faced with an increasingly diverse student population, each with unique learning styles, abilities, and aspirations.

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Classroom Tech Elevates Remote Learning

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For over two years, many schools, parents, students, and teachers have struggled with how to teach remotely, and then–when can we go back to in-person learning. For hundreds of years, that’s how it’s been done, but done right, remote learning is a winner.

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Teachers Have Little Say When School Districts Make Decisions. Here's How We Change That.

ED Surge

I had just received a notice from my school about the push for teachers and leaders to return to school for in-person learning. What would I do with my children that are on different schedules and attend schools in different neighborhoods? It was fall 2020, and here I was, sitting at my computer in tears.

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21st Century Lesson Plan Updated

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As a result, traditional teaching methods may not prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the post-High School world. Project-based learning: Engaging students in real-world projects and activities that encourage them to apply their knowledge to authentic problems.

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Student and Teacher Motivational Needs in the School Setting

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I propose that it is at the core of learning and as such, needs to be forefront of all teaching and learning. In addition to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, motivation theories of William Glasser, David McClelland, and Fredrick Herzberg have application to a school environment. Willian Glasser’s 5 Basic Needs.

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Universal Skills for Learners: Increasing School Relevancy

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Kids are learning – but for way too many it occurs outside of the school environment rather than during school. We are asking today’s students to spend so much of their school lives doing tasks that are unconnected to the the skills that need now and in their future lives.

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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

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This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. It’s one of the first things we ask for when we visit schools around the world.

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