Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In some respects, this blog has become my excuse to reflect each week on my professional work. We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. Teachers can learn so much from their students if they ask the right questions. This is not new.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges. Learn more. Are you interested in bringing Challenge Based Learning to your classroom?

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

This year, the education world has been turned upside down. Since the education system has gone virtual, we no longer get the opportunity to see and watch our students grow in person. Expecting and Encouraging Independent, Self-Directed Learning. A Chance to Reimagine Learning for Our Students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is forcing educators across the country to think about what they’ll do if they have to close their schools for weeks or even months at a time. State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Back to school isn’t just a transition for students; it’s an adjustment for parents, who are met with presentations from principals and teachers that feature a variety of education terms. The Research Map is a hub for learning sciences research. A Tool to Decipher Education Jargon. I know you might be skeptical.

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

This cohort program is dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2017

That said, as I work with educators around the world, I see future-oriented schools playing around with some, or all, of these building blocks: Project- and inquiry-based learning environments. Competency-based education and standards-based grading. Education in a digital world [VIDEO].

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With these two issues in mind, representatives from the collaborating organizations set out to create a new educational opportunity for high school students in the region. Steered by Principal Tremain Holloway, Maritime High School is intentionally designed to be a project-based learning school.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

We began our zero-based design journey to transform Albemarle County Public Schools by asking: How might we educate contemporary learners, Generation Z , for lifelong learning and not just for school? Great learning places are possible, and we have worked with great educators to create them from every type of school.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2019

Through intergenerational connections and project-based learning, HP Teaching Fellow Kim Mishkin is creating Powerful Learning experiences for students in grades 2–5 at the Hudson Lab School in Hudson-on-Hastings, New York. In this blog post, Kim describes her unique approach to Powerful Learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Before my decade-or-so in education technology, I was a Fortune 500 executive with the responsibility of leading an organization and developing my employees to their greatest potential. As I had children and shifted my career toward education, I wondered why schooling had to be a grind when working didn’t. The answer is, “yes.”.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Founder & CEO, Intercultural Education Consulting The metaverse, a virtual, interconnected, and immersive digital space where users can interact with each other and digital environments, holds tremendous potential to transform education. Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! Absolutely.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The brain is a learning machine” according to Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , who is on a mission to educate educators about the neuroscience behind culturally responsive teaching (CRT). But the brain chemicals have a lot to do with the framework and approach to teaching.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

I detail it all in this blog post , but heres the gist. Then, I assign students to one of a dozen or so policy issues to look up within the preamblesthings like gun policy, taxes, and education. I have students read and compare the platforms preambles. Theyre only a few paragraphs, so easy to make connections and inferences about.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

We are transitioning to more project-based learning environments where students can explore, problem solve and report their work back to others. How we measure learning is going to continue to evolve. Accelerating K-12 Learning Recovery. Addressing Learning Loss in Higher Education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. STEM Minds.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

. The poor and less-educated are the portion of our population most threatened by automation and artificial intelligence, as more and more of their job prospects are disappearing. In a recent blog post, Trevor Muir suggests that we start calling them “essential skills.”

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Paradigm was written into the grant knowing that, no matter what changes happen in education, we’ll have a facility where our teachers can further their knowledge and adapt to changes in professional setting.” are designing project-based learning units collaboratively.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Right now we are doing a poor job of helping educators with these tasks.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

In her role as an instructional technology coach, HP Teaching Fellow Colleen McNerney collaborates with teachers throughout Elizabeth Public Schools (New Jersey) on projects that infuse technology into project-based learning. Authentic and Connected Learning Inspires Altruism. Halloran School No.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I advise teacher professional learning cohorts to start small if they plan to introduce a project-based learning unit. If they are already working on a project-based learning unit with a cohort, they can find ways to stretch.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan (2017) calls for “thoughtful intervention and attention” to close this digital use divide, namely by enabling educators to “design highly engaging and relevant learning experiences through technology.” Indicators of impactful technology use.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to education, there is no one right solution. Education leaders need solutions that make sense for their students in their context. ” The district has been piloting micro-credentials since 2014, and is a key thought partner of Digital Promise’s Educator Micro-credential initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. Back at Summit Denali, Bock said the goal of personalized-learning time is not to replace teacher-student interactions but to enhance them. “I But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Ryan Goodman, Polk County Schools’ career and technical education (CTE) supervisor and VILS district co-lead: “VILS was the catalyst that set it all in motion for our schools. The opportunities VILS provided greatly helped foster this success while creating a newfound emphasis on project-based learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways. The district’s strategic move towards personalizing education for students has also triggered a transformation in teachers.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

With that in mind, we invite you to help us tell our stories at SXSW EDU 2019 to spread the word on topics like learner variability, educator micro-credentials, immersive storytelling with 360° technology, maker learning, edtech pilots, data interoperability, and more. Empowering Educator Voice through Edtech Pilots.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Over the course of two and a half days, education leaders showcased their efforts toward advancing equity in their district and shared best practices around topics such as real world learning, social emotional learning, and culturally competent maker learning.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Has anyone else noticed that birth stories are super popular on blogs all of a sudden? My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. Not judging, I totally read them myself!)

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

As distance learning continues, teachers are creating and implementing authentic learning opportunities while physically separated from their students. Bibbs-Fox said this project is the most authentic project-based learning experience she has worked on with her students.

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