As a central office administrator, I valued time in schools talking informally with students. One year I went to a school every Tuesday to assist with student supervision while teachers met in professional groups. This was a wonderful time for me because I could sit with students and have informal conversations. Several groups of students
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7 Questions & Actions to Build Great Teaching, Learning, and Leading Put your hard hats on and grab your tool belts, people. It’s time to discuss construction in the critical middle grades. As a middle school and high school teacher, I always believed that learning happens as a constructionist endeavor—because it brings together individual mindsets, experiences,
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Are Your Students Ready for the 22nd Century? The four new 22nd Century Cs are here everyone, so buckle up. Get your mental crockpots ready to add these ingredients to the recipe. They are fresh. They are ready. They are now. And they mean no disrespect to the 21st Century Cs that we all know and love: Communication,
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How Will You Share Our Critical Story? Now we begin an exciting journey with the letter C, which is one of the most important letters in the world of middle level education. From the shape of it, it resembles an opening, a welcoming place, a safe harbor—all things that young adolescents want and need. While they may not
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All in for Middle Level Education Month! You can’t write an ABCs blog about middle level education with the letter A and not write about Adolescents. Not only are they the reason why we celebrate Middle Level Education Month in March, but they are the main magnificent reason why we do what we do. They are also
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Appreciative Things to do and My Appreciation List Now that Valentine’s Day is behind us, let’s talk honestly about love and appreciation. The most important part of Valentine’s Day is about what you do after Valentine’s Day. It’s about how you show your appreciation the next day and every day after—after the flowers have been delivered,
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