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Shifting Our Practice

A Principal's Reflections

Moving away from traditional approaches is not easy. While the transition to personalization can occur using high agency strategies as detailed in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms , it is critical that the right culture is in place. The stage is then set to implement more personalized pedagogy. Culture matters.

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5 Ways to Create Relevant Cultures of Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The benefits speak for themselves, which compels all of us to ensure that this becomes a mainstay in pedagogy as well as learning environments. Success lies in a shared ownership approach to design relevant cultures of learning. Herein lies the vital role leaders play in designing relevant cultures of learning.

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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

Cultural and Social Awareness : Integrating relevant social and cultural issues into the curriculum can promote empathy, respect for diversity, and an understanding of global interconnectivity. Educators should use the framework as a dynamic tool to scaffold instruction and assessment while moving to more personalized pedagogies.

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Empathetic Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Below I will address six specific areas that can help to create an empathetic teaching and learning culture. Remote teachers also need time, which is why having them follow a traditional school day schedule doesn't make much sense, especially when asynchronous tasks can be employed, freeing up much needed minutes or even hours.

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Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools

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. And so the power is really in reflecting on that and just sitting with it before we continue with the traditional ways of communicating with families.” What are you particularly proud of and why?

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Re-Thinking the Learning Environment

A Principal's Reflections

A shift to remote learning and social distancing forced schools to revert back to more traditional arrangements, but new opportunities came in the form of virtual environments consisting of vibrant bitmoji classrooms, breakout rooms, purposeful use of technology, and the effective use of learning management systems.

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Top Posts of 2020

A Principal's Reflections

Other pieces included topics that I traditionally cover but with new angles such as pedagogy, change leadership, and school culture. Personalized learning quickly became a focus area based on impressive outcomes from some of the schools I had been working within in an on-going and job-embedded fashion.

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