Resources

You are cordially invited to join us this October for our 2021 Annual Educators’ Conference which will bring together motivational speakers and school educators to inspire and provoke conversations about our post-pandemic learning.

by Erik Palmer

Let's teach students how to be skeptical—but not dismissive—of the media.

For years, as I checked out in the grocery store, I saw Bat Boy on the pages of the Weekly World News. That "news" paper is no longer being printed, but weeklyworldnews.com exists. According to an article posted on the site in January 2017, Earth was going to collide with the planet Nibiru on October 17, 2017. So I suppose if we were indeed obliterated, you aren't reading this article.

by Jennifer Klein

For over a decade, I have worked with teachers to employ the concept of “Glocal Learning,” as introduced by Chris Harth in an article for the Independent School journal, to curricular design. Three years ago, when I became Head of School at Gimnasio Los Caobos, a PreK-12 bilingual school in Colombia, I started developing an image to capture the concept. It was an attempt to visualize the world in concentric circles of connection, from the most local to the most global. Each time I’ve shown this image to teachers in workshops over the years, another circle has appeared, at their suggestion, to round out the expanding circles of community partners we might connect with in our classroom projects—and to foster a flexible mentality about community as a central part of students’ world view.

by Terry Heick

How can you make remote teaching more enjoyable?

Easier? More sustainable for both you and students? Of course, there’s no magic wand but we’ve gathered some thoughts below.

This post is a mix of tools, tips, and strategies.