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10 Strategies for Developing Work Skills
In my last post, I described four essential work skills to help your students work smartly, efficiently and successfully. Those skills are: Focus Plan Make an Effort Document Today I’m going to focus on... Read More
4 Work Skills Your Students Need To Succeed
Today we’re going to focus on four work skills that will help your students work smartly, efficiently, and successfully. These skills emphasize executive functioning and are essential for students to succeed in school, career, and... Read More
Effective Feedback Loops Help Students Engage and Learn Actively
As teachers, we know that students learn and perform their best when they’re actively engaged in the learning process. While there are many different ways to make learning more active, one strategy we’re focused on is on... Read More
Resource Spotlight: Get On Your Feet
Picture three classrooms. In one classroom, students are involved in a lab experiment. In another classroom, students are quietly and individually annotating a novel as they read. In another classroom, students are dancing to... Read More
Get to know the Learning Skills that help students REASON
In our last two posts we focused on strategies and activities to help students build skills as they Explore and Analyze. In this post we focus on a third category of skills, Reason, which includes the following Learning... Read More
Teacher Spotlight: Kyle Haselton
Last month I visited Quest Forward High School in Santa Rosa, CA and had the pleasure of meeting Kyle Haselton, a second year English teacher. Quest Forward High Schools use Opportunity Education’s Quest Forward Learning to empower... Read More
Why we, a civil rights leader and a philanthropist, are on a mission to transform education
This article appeared in the Opinion section of Fox News on 3/15/2023. In 2020, there were over 2 million people in the United States between the ages of 16 and 24 who had dropped out of high school. In 1954, Bob Woodson... Read More
Resource Spotlight: Scaffolding Socrates
The summer before I started teaching, I had a romanticized vision of class discussion. My dream class looked like my AP English class when I was in 12th grade: we devoured literature and led lively small group discussions, while our... Read More