This week our school hosted its first Expo Night of the year. Last year we ran a single Expo Night, but this year we’ve planned two. I’m completely thrilled that we’re having more of these events this year – Expo Nights are my favorite nights of the school year. Our kids stay after school and [...]
On an unusually sunny and warm day this November, I joined my colleagues from school at Feather Ridge Farm for an introduction to mindfulness, graciously, gracefully, and generously hosted by Tussi Kluge. I left with a kind of serene delight – with a sense of simple pleasure from trusting that following the moment of learning [...]
Today we talked, wrote, and otherwise composed through our Declarations of Education and ideas for #teachin11.
Here are our Top 5 Suggestions for Transforming Public Education from 25 respondents.
Make quiet learning spaces.
Give students individual attention from teachers.
Learn more outside, in nature.
Put comfortable furniture like couches in classrooms.
Make small and/or individual learning spaces.
As we talked, I posed [...]
Here’s a quick post on an imperfect start to using video games in the classroom for teaching the soft-skills necessary for collaboration in a manner (hopefully) authentic and relevant to students’ media experience.
Teams of 3-4 students played New Super Mario Bros. Wii at a classroom station.
Teams were asked to win the most levels possible with [...]
I’m sure many of you are familiar with the TwitterKids of Tanzania – students tweeting in English with followers from around the world. I’m also sure many of you are much more adept than I am at breaking down the walls of the classroom with tools like Twitter, Skype, Google for Educators, wikis, [...]
[Editor's note: Guest blogger Damani Harrison, gifted musician and mentor, joins Classroots.org for a series of posts sharing his take on authentic engagement in teaching and learning. Damani works for the Music Resource Center, "a state-of-the-art facility where teens can learn the latest technology in the music industry and study and participate in every phase [...]
Trevor Przyuski works as an instructional coach for Albemarle County Public Schools. In, “Let Them Own It,” he writes about the tension between children’s authentic engagement with personally meaningful work and their struggles with traditional school work. By sharing an anecdote from his own experience as a classroom teacher, Trevor offers a model of instructional [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
