Four Critical Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Practices: Supporting Ourselves and Others in Unusual Times
We are living in remarkable times. In July of 2020, in the middle of the Covid pandemic, CASEL released what […]
Read MoreWhat can you do when you can’t peek over their shoulders?
One of the biggest challenges with remote teaching is our inability to walk around the classroom and hear student thinking! […]
Read MoreVirtual Discourse
Yes, things are different. Everything is harder, and there are more loops than ever to go through to do the […]
Read MoreWhat do my students really understand? Building a Bridge from Virtual to In-Person Learning
In an in-person classroom, teachers can walk around and take a look at student work, listen in to learners’ conversations, […]
Read MoreFive Ways to Get Students to Turn on their Video During Classes
There they are – the boxes on the video-conference screen, empty but names or images uploaded. We are hearing from […]
Read MoreWhat is Virtual Coaching?
How can instructional coaches be of service during remote & hybrid learning? We all want to get better. The role […]
Read MoreSame Beliefs – New Format
We had two weeks from the time school closed to the re-opening fully online. Over those two weeks, several questions […]
Read MoreEffective Remote Teaching
What a spring! We have worked alongside so many teachers responding and adjusting and revising our remote teaching in an […]
Read MoreWork done at the beginning of the year is paying off now
As the education community in Colorado has responded and adapted to the rapid changes necessitated by physical distancing in COVID-19 […]
Read MoreVirtual Mini-Lessons Foster Community
“Hi Writers! I am so excited to get to write with you today. I wish I could see you in […]
Read More“How in the world are we gonna do this?” Rural districts adapt to distance learning
As the education community in Colorado has responded and adapted to the rapid changes necessitated by physical distancing in COVID-19 […]
Read MoreListening, Responding, Listening, and Beginning to Understand
Recently, we were asked “How do you know whether (or not) your students are understanding?” This was, of course, an […]
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