Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/26/2016

• Elena Aguilar: The Art of Coaching

  Downloads to support instructional coaching.

  tags: coaching instructional coaching

• Reflecting on Reflection: A Habit of Mind | Edutopia

  • To reflect means to look back at how something "went" in all of its available parts and patterns:

      
    • Causes and effects
     
    • Comparisons and contrast
     
    • Strengths and weakness
     
    • Characteristics
     
    • How close it came to expectations
     
    • Your emotions.
  • reflection actually starts much earlier, alone, in your own mind after something happens. Then it often happens with a friend, colleague, loved one or maybe even a student. Then you're likely to reflect again, alone, now pushed farther in your thinking by that sharing. Writing about it again, and then sharing that with others, makes the reflection more complex and more personal.

• Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern For Others And The Common Good Through College Admissions | Making Caring Common

  "Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions marks the first time in history that a broad coalition of college admissions offices have joined forces to collectively encourage high school students to focus on meaningful ethical and intellectual engagement. The report includes concrete recommendations to reshape the college admissions process and promote greater ethical engagement among aspiring students, reduce excessive achievement pressure, and level the playing field for economically disadvantaged students. It is the first step in a two-year campaign that seeks to substantially reshape the existing college admissions process. "

  tags: admissions college empathy service learning equity

  • Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions marks the first time in history that a broad coalition of college admissions offices have joined forces to collectively encourage high school students to focus on meaningful ethical and intellectual engagement. The report includes concrete recommendations to reshape the college admissions process and promote greater ethical engagement among aspiring students, reduce excessive achievement pressure, and level the playing field for economically disadvantaged students. It is the first step in a two-year campaign that seeks to substantially reshape the existing college admissions process.

• Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions | Harvard Graduate School of Education

  This article describes how Harvard GSE conducted a study among college admissions offices to determine what steps need to be taken in order to reduce personal achievement-oriented admissions procedures in order to focus more on service-learning, equity in admissions and empathy.

  tags: admissions college empathy service learning equity

• Student-Centered Learning: March 2016 | Matt Renwick

  This is my title I created for this post. Mr. Renwick sums up several books and posts related to the idea of creating conditions for student-centered learning.

  tags: student-centered learning

  • Kraft and his team found four attributes identified in schools that experienced consistently high achievement:

     
     
    • School safety and order
     
    • Leadership and professional development
     
    • High academic expectations
     
    • Teacher relationships and collaboration
  • Specific professional learning offerings for teachers include one-to-one instructional coaching and school leadership opportunities. Teacher retention and higher test scores have been the result of these efforts.
  • Educators can start reimagining instruction by asking ourselves what learning we experienced in our school careers that truly mattered in our lives. This reflection can lead to finding topics and themes from our current curriculum and assessing how well they fit within this mindset of lifeworthy learning. Four tenets of big understandings – opportunity, insight, action, and ethics – can serve as gatekeepers in this process.
  • Perkins closes this piece of identifying three national agendas (achievement, information, expertise) that may have had too much importance placed upon them.
  • Play-based learning should allow for the students to explore their passions and interests without an outcome necessarily in mind. “Play is not something you do to a child. If you have an agenda, if you are requiring them to do it, if you have to make it ‘fun’ to get them to comply, if they are not free to stop at any time, then it is not play.”
  • Play is self-chosen, enjoyable, inherently valuable, and unstructured.

• Mobile Bin Cart, Bin Carts in Stock - ULINE

  tags: cart maker cart

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