Teaching and Learning
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Teach Mediation Skills to Strengthen Classroom Discipline
Often an educator can feel more like a referee than...
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Make Classroom Connections with Authenticity and Smiles
Every day, educators can change the world one child at...
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Fall is the Perfect Time to Check Your Shelf (Again): Blending Culturally Responsive Texts into Your Writing Workshop
In the fall of 2022, school boards and school librarians...
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More Than Meets The Eye: Using ChatGPT to Transform your Teaching
If you’ve ever heard of Transformers, you’ve probably heard of...
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Advocating For All Children to Access Learning Through Play: Acceptance for All Through Play-based Learning
My early childhood memories on play My passion for teaching...
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Connect Critical Thinking Skills to Social-Emotional Learning In The Classroom
Critical Thinking Critical thinking is expansive thinking, which takes the...
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Unlock Mathematical Connections: Best Practices for Engaging and Effective Mathematics Education
For nine years, I taught mathematics to an array of...
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Attuning Mind and Heart with the Children’s Interests and Passions
Eight years ago, the ECE team at Shanghai American School...
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Connecting the Early Years with Nature
As early years educators, we have an incredible opportunity to...
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Using Nature to Nurture: Rethinking Learning Environments to Encourage Inquiry, Play and Development
Why do we, as school educators, teach children information they...
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Teach Kindness and Transform Your Classroom
Can you teach kindness? Kindness is a character trait and...
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Is it magic or science? No, it’s Physical Education!
Think of the last time you went bowling. How long...