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Future-Proofing Learning: Preparing Students for an Uncertain Tomorrow

A Principal's Reflections

Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed this topic in detail after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2021. You can also read the blog post HERE. Listen on Spotify or wherever you access your favorite podcasts. Below are some expanded thoughts on the topic. Dont prepare learners for something.

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Top Posts of 2020

A Principal's Reflections

From a blogging perspective, I kicked it off with a post on what could be as a means to pump up educators as they continued to move towards embracing innovative strategies and ideas. Other pieces included topics that I traditionally cover but with new angles such as pedagogy, change leadership, and school culture. We are in their debt.

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Reflective Learning as the New Normal

A Principal's Reflections

The quest to improve pedagogy, and in turn learner outcomes, is a focus of many schools. As I work with schools and districts as a job-embedded coach, one of my main focus areas is to help improve pedagogy both with and without the use of technology. Maybe success lies in taking a more detailed look at daily practice.

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Improving Instruction in a Digital World

A Principal's Reflections

With advanced digital tools under their belts, students grow to develop their own learning tasks—such as pod­casting, blogging, or digitally storytelling—that stretch their creativity, originality, design, or adaptation. Pedagogy first, technology second when appropriate.

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Organize, Streamline, and Empower Learning with H?para

A Principal's Reflections

As someone who has actively worked in schools physically and virtually throughout the pandemic, I have seen some of the most extraordinary examples of sound pedagogy. I will even go out on a limb and state that what I have seen the past couple of months is significantly better at scale than what was observed prior to COVID-19's emergence.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The post Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Come back for more.

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Recognizing the Digital Assets You Have at Your Disposal

A Principal's Reflections

Blog posts are a great option to get into the nitty-gritty of change. Hyperlinks A simple strategy to add more context to tweets and social media updates is to add a hyperlink to supporting research, mainstream media pieces, blog posts, or other resource sites. If you are not blogging, it’s time to get over the hurdle.

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