A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2024

As we navigate the shifting currents of the educational landscape, it's clear that transformative change is not just necessary—it's inevitable. To foster an environment where every student thrives, we must reimagine our approach to education from the ground up. This calls for a system that is not just a patchwork of quick fixes but a comprehensive blueprint for enduring change.

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TeachThought

JANUARY 7, 2024

How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom. The post Levels Of Integration For Critical Thinking appeared first on TeachThought.

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All Things Pedagogical

JANUARY 7, 2024

Happy 2024, folks! Another year and another semester is upon us and so is another round of my biweekly blog posts. I am not the type of person who does resolutions, instead I pick a word and that word becomes the focus of my year. This year it was a real toss up between what word I would pick, but I selected the word comfort. The other word that it could have been was trust, but I decided that it was a lot more difficult to focus on trust more holistically in my life at the moment for various re

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 7, 2024

Happy New Year to all our readers! We wish you all the best for 2024. In this post we are looking back to one of our highlights for 2023: a visit to a fifth grade classroom that was using 4QM curriculum. In this post I’ll describe what we saw there and explain how the curriculum made it possible. We’ll be writing even more curriculum in 2024, and it will all follow the same basic structure that made this fifth grade classroom successful.

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