Owning Your Own Education

What College Can Teach the Aspiring Entrepreneur

What to study, where to study—and other ways to use your education to be ready to start your own business.

7 Reflection Tips for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness

Through being reflective about your own teaching practices, model and guide students toward a more reflective approach to their projects, grades, actions, and reactions.

Do You Have a World-Changing Idea?

Students, I'd like to read your thoughts on the most urgent choices the world faces. Submit your own annual letter and I'll highlight the most inspiring ones on our website.

Building Self-Advocacy and Ownership Through Student-Led Conferences

Student-led conferences clearly establish that while adults are there for support, students are expected to own their own learning

Who Owns the Learning in Your Classroom?

It took me years to transform my instruction toward a more student-centered approach. This is my story where I share my journey toward student ownership through student choice. Note that this is a revision of

Choose Your Own Adventures with Google Forms

Technology can take us on adventures, far and wide! Where will you go? I love working with teachers from all over the country, and helping them find meaningful ways to integrate technology into their…

Watch out for your own fixed mindset, Carol Dweck tells teachers

Carol Dweck, the respected academic behind the “growth mindset” theory that has taken education by storm, has warned teachers to be aware of their own “fixed mindset” ideas<br>Writing for US publication Education Week , Professor Dweck said every teacher had a “fixed mindset” in some circumstances and a “growth mindset” in others, and that greater awareness of this could help teachers improve their practice<br>Professor…

5 Reasons You Should Seek Your OWN Student Feedback

If you've never asked students for serious, honest feedback about your teaching, your materials, and your class, there's a good chance you're missing something.

Create Your Own Adventure (Professional Learning That Shifts Practice Part 5)

Teachers (like all learners) thrive when they have a clear understanding of the vision and know where they are going, yet have the autonomy to get there in a way that meets the needs of the learner…

Teachers Need Less Training, More Learning

Trying to improve everything at once doesn't work. What if we suspended new professional development for a year to concentrate on our own deeper learning?

5 surprising results of a self-paced classroom

The self-paced classroom allows students to discover how they learn best and gain valuable information about their own learning that they can carry with them for life.

Why Your Friends Shape Your Happiness, Creativity, And Career

Owning the Responsibility for Learning

Teachers aren’t responsible for their students’ learning. Their responsibility is to create the opportunity for learning.

Would you tweet that?

I have been really focusing on how social media can not only connect us with others around the globe, but within our own school. Here is something that I have been encouraging others to think abou…

Four STEM Tools to Get Kids Learning and Exploring Outdoors

The four STEM apps get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to photograph, or getting muddy at their local watershed.

No time for PD? 5 ways to embed it into your day

Teachers and administrators alike consistently rue the lack of time they have for the professional development they need to use digital age learning tools to their full potential. Make the most of the time you have by fitting a little PD in every day.

3 great questions to ask your professor this semester

To professors, questions are a sign that a student is paying attention in class, strives to do well and wants to learn more.

Does Your Classroom Cultivate Student Resilience?

Children who develop resilience are better equipped to learn from failure and adapt to change. Teachers should also address parent expectations of success and failure<br>Over 100 years ago, the great African American educator Booker T. Washington spoke about resilience<br>I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome…