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3 Tips to Make Any Lesson More Culturally Responsive

…condescending and inconsistent with Geneva Gay’s scholarship, which focuses on students cultural and linguist capital as a conduit to other forms of learning. This involves valuing students’ experiences and communities, and leveraging them as learning platforms for both content and pedagogy. Culturally responsive content should engage students in problem-solving and challenging structural inequalities. Examples: http://bit.ly/2o7jZO3, http://bit.ly/2o73eSA This involves more than contrived uses of over-generalized communication patterns. Gamification has the potential to undermine authenticity. Finally, referring to students of color as ‘diverse students’ implies that white students are neutral and only ‘those kids’ are diverse. This is truly a troubling assumption,…

9 Tips for Engaging Your English Class with Pop Culture

…be highly captivating primary sources, but strangely, our students feel a stronger pull toward Adele’s music videos.) Hook them with a music video or commercial before you put them through the paces with close visual reading, analysis, and synthesis. 9. Have fun! Don’t lose sight of the reason why pop culture is such a great tool to heighten engagement and rigor! It’s a relatively novel academic exercise, your students will have a pre-existing interest in the content, and because of these factors, pop culture lessons don’t feel quite as much like work. Your students will literally feel compelled to laugh,…

To Learn, Students Need to DO Something

…This is where we get students interested in the lesson and set objectives for the day. Direct instruction: Facts, concepts, and skills are delivered via lecture, video, reading—some way of getting the information into students’ heads. Guided practice and application: With the support of the teacher, students apply what they have just been taught. Independent practice and application: Students apply the learning on their own. Assessment: The teacher measures how well students have met the objectives. I think what’s happening is that we’re skipping over the third step. We’re going right to independent practice (often at the lowest levels—basic regurgitation),…

How Accurate Are Your Grades?

…”grade” the concept of learning slowly slips away. So we children, we are taught very young that students who receive A’s are bright and those who receive Cs are, well, ok. Grades represent very little, in my opinion, but we are an educational system that encourages As not Cs. Take another perspective. Northern European schools take a student-teacher-system collaborative approach and view students as “partners”: Interesting… Tanaka, M., Naylor, R., Ursin, J., & Zavale, N. C. (2019). THE FUTURE OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. Student Engagement and Quality Assurance in Higher Education: International Collaborations for the Enhancement of Learning, 162. Shaylee Joy…

Episode 120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race

…free teaching resources, share work with students, and communicate feedback on assignments. With Kiddom, school and district leaders can support the work happening in classrooms in a more effective and timely manner. And most importantly, they can let teachers do what they do best. Want to try it out? Get your 2-week free trial at go.kiddom.co/freetrial Support also comes from Pear Deck, the tool that helps you supercharge student engagement. With Pear Deck, you can take any Google Slides presentation, add interactive questions or embed websites, and send it to student devices so they can participate in real time while…

The Apollo School: What 21st Century Learning Looks Like

…sense. We focus heavily on soft-skills, especially time management and communication. For students who struggle with those skills, Apollo can help improve them; however, it might not be the most ideal learning environment for them. We pride ourselves in that we have a range of student abilities in the course: IEP students, gifted, and several in between. Wes Hi Erin, Apollo is one of many learning options students have at Central York High School. So while it’s accessible to all students, it’s certainly not for all students. For example, a student might thrive in a lecture-based classroom and, therefore, he…

Episode 222 Transcript

…holds true for education as well. Most schools operate within a larger community, and the better we are at building relationships between our schools and our communities, the better we can serve our students. While this principle is not new, as our student population grows ever more diverse, many schools haven’t been quite as successful as they’d like to be when trying to connect with their students’ families. Despite holding open houses and special theme nights, setting up parent-teacher conferences, sending home newsletters, and using apps designed specifically to keep families in the loop, I hear too many teachers say…

Episode 47: Black Girls and School: We Can Do Better

…those are the two leading alternatives that we engage when we are talking about alternatives, particularly to school discipline. Each one has been evaluated and where there is program fidelity, they are effective in curbing the rate of suspensions and the usage of other forms of exclusionary discipline in response to negative student behavior. The PBIS discussion to me is a behavioral modification effort and I think that it has its limitations in the sense that it addresses the student, but it doesn’t address the structures around the student. And so, while we spend a lot of time again talking…

8 Ways to Grow Students’ Vocabulary

…Print the directions for the activity (see below). Place the printed directions and terms in a plastic bag or manila envelope for each group of students. Divide students into groups of three to five. It’s important that groups are small so each student has an opportunity to discuss. The goal is for students to review and deepen understanding about concepts and specific terms, so making sure they clarify their thinking aloud is important. To begin, one student draws a card from the deck and another student defines the term. Moving around the circle, each student adds to the definition, refining…