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Where is Your Learning Culture?

A Principal's Reflections

We teach the way we were taught or lead the way we were led. Herein lies one of the most prominent challenges schools and educators face, and that is perceived success based on traditional metrics and methodologies. Where is your learning culture? So how do we begin to transform culture?

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TTWWADI - A Culture Killer

A Principal's Reflections

However, there is another significant impediment to change that doesn’t get as much focus as it should and that is tradition. Tradition, combined with the comfort of the status quo, forms a plausible excuse for not changing. As a result, the learning culture does not evolve or becomes stagnant for both learners and educators.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

What Are The Best Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking? But we have to start somewhere, so below I’ve started that kind of process with a collection of types of questions for teaching critical thinking –a collection that really needs better organizing and clearer formatting. Turns out, it’s pretty limitless.

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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. Teaching both face-to-face and remote learners at the time is not easy, but I recently developed a pedagogical framework using a station rotation model that can help. Some set aside a half-day.

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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

In a world of standardized tests and rigid curricula, fostering a culture of continuous, personalized growth for teachers allows them to stay abreast of current trends and effective strategies, maximize time, and become the best iteration of themselves for the learners they serve. Offer teachers a diverse menu of learning opportunities.

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Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture

Catlin Tucker

September 8th is International Literacy Day, a great time to think about promoting a class culture that values reading. Below are strategies and resources I’ve used to cultivate a reading culture in my classroom. Cultivating a culture of reading doesn’t happen overnight. Guest post written by Amy Tobener-Talley.

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Your Lasting Legacy

A Principal's Reflections

The choice one makes to teach and lead is almost always grounded in the innate desire to make a positive difference in a child's life. Culture, in a classroom or school, is built on a strong relational foundation. No one goes into the education profession for accolades or to make big bucks, although I wish the latter were a reality.

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