The LINC Blog

Building Stamina & Independence through Gradual Release

By Meredith Lewis

What does it look like to support student independence in a blended classroom space? How well are students able to self-monitor and manage independent work online within your classroom? These are ...

The Evolving Role of the 21st-Century Teacher

By Tiffany Wycoff

Depending on which futurist you ask, we stand to lose between 38%-50% of today’s jobs to automation over the next 20 years. The jobs predicted to fall to automation include those which are ...

Why Students Should Co-Create the Classroom from Day One

By Tiffany Wycoff

Instead of walking into a carefully designed class that’s adorned with decorations and already set class rules, students are experiencing something new on the first day of school.

Steps To Building a Classroom Community: Collaborating on Class Contracts

By Charity Dodd

As we roll into this new school year, it is really useful to build a strong and positive classroom community and culture. One way I’ve seen this done well is by creating a collaborative class ...

Overcoming Initiative Overload: How to turn stress into strategy (Part 1)

By Jason Green

I sometimes get asked the question, “What are you guys really up to at LINC?” I sometimes ask the question back, curiously, “Well, what are you up to at your school?” It is at that point that I often ...

PLCs for the First Year 21st Century Teacher

By Charity Dodd

Recently I spoke with an educator who asked for support in creating a Professional Learning Community (PLC) for first-year teachers in her building. What a great idea! I remember not even feeling the ...

The Why and How of Station Rotation

By Kate Schuster

Recently one of the graduate students in my Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages class at Hunter College School of Education asked me, “How do I teach my 9th-grade beginner English ...

Jumpstart Learning with Agency

By Tiffany Wycoff

In Blended Learning in Action, the hallmarks of effective practice are outlined by The PAACC: Personalization, Agency, Audience, Creativity, and Connectivity. One way to ensure we hit the mark in ...

Three Strategies to Try Rather than Taking Away the Tech

By Kim Weber

Throughout my work in schools as a LINC Coach, there is a concern consistently expressed by teachers; one that results in the biggest deterrent for those who are beginning to transform their teaching ...

5 Easy Strategies for Student Conferencing

By Jennifer Bernier

Student conferencing is one of the most powerful ways that you can build student agency and transform your classroom. However, as a teacher, conferencing with every student can be challenging when we ...

Generativity in Action - 3 Steps to Building a Culture of Student Generativity

By Tiffany Wycoff

As a principal, I hosted many students who were asked by their teachers to “take a break” from their classrooms due to misbehavior. When this happened, I started with student reflection, having them ...