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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
Student Engagement Matters More Than Attendance; Why Don’t Schools Track It?
This article appeared in Forbes on 3/25/2023. The importance of engagement in both workplace and educational success has been well illustrated over the last 20 years by the analytics company Gallup. Even though tracking... Read More
Get to know the Learning Skills that help students COMMUNICATE
At last, we arrive at our final category of Learning Skills: Communicate! Check out the first 3 if you haven’t already seen them: Explore, Analyze, and Reason. Communicate includes the following Learning Skills: ... 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
Ongoing Outreach in Florida
Katherine Cue-Fuente is our Outreach Director for Florida Schools. Kat recently met with Florida’s new Commissioner of Education and several state legislators to discuss how Opportunity Education can positively impact students... Read More
Teacher Spotlight: Kyle Haselton
Last month I visited Quest Forward Academy Santa Rosa and had the pleasure of meeting Kyle Haselton, a second year English teacher. Kyle’s been kind enough to open his classroom door and share his experiences, including ways he... Read More
Get to know the Learning Skills that help students ANALYZE
In our last post we focused on strategies and activities to support students build skills as they Explore. Those Learning Skills include Establish Meaning, Ask Questions, and Investigate. In this post we focus on a second... Read More
Get to know the Learning Skills that help students EXPLORE
When you think of your time in school, as a student, what comes to mind? Is it what you learned? Or how you learned it and what you did? These days I can’t tell you the first thing about Calculus, or anything about Chemistry.... Read More