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Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities Part 3: Elements of Authentic Facilitation
By Sandra Noguera
Welcome to the third installment in my blog series, Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities. This time I focus on the essential elements of authentic facilitation. As I researched and ...
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Tips for Teaching Social Studies in Remote or Hybrid Classrooms
By Alex Valacer
At the start of remote learning in the spring, my district was delayed in announcing its official plan because of the need to distribute adequate technology. During this delay, a colleague and I ...
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Building Student-Agency in Hybrid and Remote Classrooms
By Jennifer Wolfe
“I want my students to be more independent” and “I want my students to develop more intrinsic motivation.” These are comments I’m hearing from teachers across the country regardless of the model of ...
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Introducing LINC's Racial Equity Professional Development Library
By Jennifer Wolfe
The team at LINC had the honor to partner with a smart group of experienced racial equity scholars and facilitators to create a compelling set of resources to help educators in the pursuit of a more ...
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Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities Part 2: The Facilitator as the PLC Backbone
By Sandra Noguera
Welcome to the second installment in my blog series, Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). This piece focuses on the critical role of the facilitator.
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Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities Part 4: Leading Effective and Engaging PLC Meetings
By Sandra Noguera
Welcome to the fourth installment in my blog series, Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities. In this piece, I focus on how to plan and lead effective PLC meetings to achieve your ...
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Teaching the Arts in Remote or Hybrid Learning Environments
By Rohiatou Siby
In the spring, like most teachers, I scrambled to find ways to engage my students. As a dance teacher, students enjoyed my class in the school building. Due to alternate-day schedules, students would ...
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As we moved quickly online last spring, teaching math in the online environment was a scary idea to me. I remember panicking over not having my in-class resources such as my whiteboards, document ...
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Building Deeper Connections in the Classroom
By Carolyn Hanser
In my first year of teaching, I taught a kindergarten class of eighteen students. If someone asked me about my class I’d first tell them about the small class size, then I’d share that twelve of the ...
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Reinventing Rubrics
By Dee Lanier
People that know me, know that I have a tendency to rant. There are various topics, that when mentioned, send me down the path of a rant of no return. The subject of rubrics is one of those topics. ...
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We Must Never Go “Back” To School
By Tiffany Wycoff
In March 2020, a line was drawn in educational history. On one side of it is the before - community, classrooms, reading circles, shared tins of pencils sitting on tightly grouped desks, high fives ...
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