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Project-Based Learning Through a Making Lens

Supercharge your project-based learning with some help from the Maker Movement.

School Admins: SAMR Tools for Staff Presentations

Have you heard about SAMR? Learn how you can use this tech integration model for your staff presentations.

Nurturing Intrinsic Motivation and Growth Mindset in Writing

Here are some tactical tips to engage and inspire even the most resistant of budding writers.

The 5 Keys to Project-Based Learning

How do you implement rigorous PBL? This suite of videos shows specific approaches -- and research -- to engage students and deepen their learning.

Got PBL?

Here is a world of ideas for project-based learning activities for you to steal and customize for your own.
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After-School Learning
Kinesthetic Learning: Moving Toward a New Model for Education

By Kirin Sinha

Kinesthetic learning, especially for middle school girls, connects the act of acquiring knowledge with physical movement, breaking through the barriers of self-image and perceived limitations.

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Assessment
A Defense of Deeper Learning: Watch What's Working, Part 4

By Bob Lenz

The case is made for teachers to work together to calibrate assignment or project criteria so that all student work is judged by the same standards and level of rigor.

Service Learning
The Happy Eating Place: How Elementary Students Can Run Their Own Business

By Whitney Walker

Fourth and fifth graders develop a service learning project that prepares meals for their school community and donates the proceeds to a county food bank.

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Creativity
Bored? Good, You'll Be More Creative

By Ainissa Ramirez

Nobody likes boredom, yet research has shown that restless, wandering minds are capable of greater creativity than those bombarded by data and enmeshed in multitasking.

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Differentiated Instruction
3 Ways to Plan for Diverse Learners: What Teachers Do

By John McCarthy

Teachers aiming to differentiate learning in their classroom can focus on content, process, and product in giving students opportunities to grow and shine as individuals.

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Project-Based Learning
Roller Coaster Middle School: How One Kid's Crazy Idea Took PBL to Thrilling New Heights

By Will Pemble

Will Pemble became CoasterDad when his son's backyard roller coaster idea turned into a massive PBL project integrating math, physics, and 21st century skills.

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How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Technology

Maker Education
How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Tech

Eighth-grader Quin uses his passion for electronics to teach fellow students about 3D printing, arduinos, and other hands-on lessons in STEM skills.

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Professional Development
Top 12 Summer Tips for Top Teachers

By Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

For top teachers, the list of 12 tips for maximizing your summer vacation includes reflecting, connecting, laughing, and coming out swinging in September.

8 1 37,210 views

Five-Minute Film Festival
Five-Minute Film Festival: Classroom Makeovers to Engage Learners

By Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy)

How can a classroom be set up to maximize learning? Get inspired by this video playlist with tips and ideas for teachers to make over their classrooms.

4 385 32,338 views

Differentiated Instruction
Myth-Busting Differentiated Instruction: 3 Myths and 3 Truths

By John McCarthy

With delivery of instruction, one size does not fit all. John McCarthy launches his differentiated instruction series by busting three common myths about DI.

12 1 31,781 views

PBL Planning
A World of Project Ideas (You Can Steal)

By Suzie Boss

To get off to a flying start planning this summer, borrow good project ideas from other teachers and adapt them to fit your context.

8 1 23,720 views

Coding in the Classroom
Coding for Kindergarteners

By Sam Patterson

Teaching young children to code is far from a tedious exercise with the thoughtful, age-appropriate use of game-like apps and robotic devices.

7 1 19,298 views

Literacy
Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters

By Matthew James Friday

Teachers, by their nature, are storytellers. You can improve this skillset with seven steps for engaging younger students through narrative.

8 669 18,640 views

Teaching Strategies
Mastering the Teaching Game

By Carol Tomlinson

After listening to an interview with top tennis coach Sven Groeneveld, Carol Tomlinson clarifies eight essential principles that teaching shares with high-level sports coaching.

6 494 15,586 views

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