The LINC Blog

The Importance of Embracing Diversity in the Classroom

By Miryam Morron

In a hyperconnected world, looking in any direction leads us to encounter diverse richness. The classroom is no exception. Our learners differ in terms of gender, culture, learning styles, modes of ...

Embracing Diversity: Supporting LGBTQ+ Students in Inclusive Classrooms

By Mahaliah Duncan

In today's diverse educational landscape, it's crucial for educators to understand and support their LGBTQ+ students. By fostering positive environments, educators can empower their school’s LGBTQ+ ...

10 Effective Strategies for Engaging Students until the End of the School Year

By Scott Noon

As the weather gets nicer and the prospect of summer vacation looms ever closer, students get distracted, and teachers struggle to keep them engaged. Create an interactive classroom environment that ...

From Good to Great: How Personalized Coaching Can Transform Teachers and Leaders

By Scott Noon

Personalized instructional coaching is an effective way to support both new and veteran teachers and leaders in their professional development and to promote student achievement. Even in the face of ...

ChatGPT: A Translation Service for Inclusive and Effective Language Learning

By Charity Dodd

ChatGPT ensures all students have equal opportunity to learn by providing a translation service so those who don't speak the same language can still understand the content. This valuable technology ...

The Benefits of Bite-Sized Learning

By Charity Dodd

Lately I’ve been reading about microlearning or bite-sized learning for students in the classroom. Microlearning in the K-12 classroom is characterized by the use of small, focused lessons that are ...

What is the Value of the Teacher in the AI Classroom? - I asked ChatGPT over coffee.

By Tiffany Wycoff

At first glance, the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the midst of the 2022 holiday season could hardly be counted among the items likely to be on a teacher’s wish list. It’s hard to imagine joy at ...

How Can I Increase Authenticity in My Lessons?

By Jennifer Bernier

The days of teachers being the sole audience or receiver of student work are long gone… well at least they should be. Authentic learning goes far beyond the four walls of the classroom and is much ...

Acceleration, Not Retention? The Case for Leveraging New Blended Learning Skills to Keep Students Moving Forward

By Rohiatou Siby

During a recent car ride to New York, I sat in the passenger’s seat while the driver kicked the speed up several notches out of my comfort zone, to better accommodate our time schedule. After ...

Introducing the Accelerating Student Learning Series

By Jennifer Wolfe

Our team at LINC is working with educators across the globe on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reimagine education, enabling all learners to meet their full potential. This collaborative team ...

Reimagining and Designing Equitable Classrooms that Work for All Learners

By Cassondra Corbin-Thaddies

We’re at a pivotal moment of change in education where we can recalibrate and reimagine what education can mean for Black, Brown, and White students. Now more than ever, we are aware that the way we ...

What Our Students Learned (NOT LOST!) During the Pandemic

By Jennifer Wolfe

As a mom of three kids and a professional working in the education innovation field, this has been an intensely challenging year. While we engage in many conversations about what we lost during this ...