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Developing Resilience in Learners

A Principal's Reflections

Marilyn Price Mitchell shared the following in an article for Edutopia: Research has since established resilience as essential for human thriving and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people.

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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year

TeachThought

A few thoughts– Teaching is a lot work. It depends on factors, including building and climate, mindset, relationships with parents, student engagement, and classroom management, the function of various standards in your teaching and curriculum, the quality of the PLCs—if they are used in your building—and so on.

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Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding

The Hechinger Report

Seventh grade students offer feedback on projects by sixth graders at Stony Brook School, where about 40 students in each grade get interdisciplinary, project-based learning. It’s a cool way to learn something,” Roman said. Instead of learning and taking a test. It’s more free.”.

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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources.

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Get Started with Project-Based Learning

Digital Promise

More than 200 of you responded to our survey and listed project-based learning (PBL) as a top interest. Pedagogical approaches related to PBL — such as challenge-based learning, problem-based learning, and inquiry-based learning — share common features.

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3 Reasons to Consider a Co-teaching Model

Catlin Tucker

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. When I initially pitched the program concept to my principal, I emphasized the co-teaching component. 1 Learning from Another Perspective.

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PROOF POINTS: The best way to teach might depend on the subject

The Hechinger Report

What is the best way to teach? Project-based learning is trendy. Advocates of project-based learning once tried to develop a curriculum to teach math, but backed off when they struggled to come up with good projects for teaching abstract math concepts and skills.

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