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Kofi B on the power of teachers, peers, and music

Alec talked to 23-year-old keyboard player, band leader, public speaker, and Akron, Ohio native Kofi B mere hours before Kofi kicked off the 2024 Deeper Learning conference with an incendiary set! [read more]

Kofi Boakye

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Learning Danish by Selling Potions

Imagine peering down an ordinary school hallway, clutching an entry ticket that was sent to you. You turn a corner [read more]

Trine Agerbak

Everyone Can Lead with Data

Now that I support 19 schools, I’ve come to understand that the “conduit role” is necessary but not sufficient. The [read more]

Amanda Baltikas

How (and Why) to Do a White Board Assessment

There was one student in particular, who I’ll call “Alex.” He excelled in conversations with his peers and often shared [read more]

Michael Chin

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Radical Dreaming

Following unbridled curiosity is the central work of children. And, contrary to what industrialized education might demand of us, enabling [read more]

Sara Sadek

We Have All This Data, Now What?

Too often when teachers get data, they don’t know what to do with it. At the University of Chicago Middle [read more]

Jennifer Ciok, Naomi Wilfred

How to Start Continuous Improvement Without Stopping Everything

One of the key principles of continuous improvement is that you should spend a lot of time understanding a problem [read more]

Amiee Winchester, Zack Jaffe

Convergence

Teachers plan meaningfully and rigorously in ways that allow the synergy of soft and hard skills to interact [read more]

Peter Jana

Issue 28: Spring 2025

May, 2025

Improvement

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Quick Jots to Support Student Reading

Independent reading is the reading students do that has potential ... [read more]

Julie Ruble

How Schools Are Using Identity Questions to Improve Literacy

ELA teachers asked students to connect their personal and cultural identity to the academic content at key junctures in their [read more]

Jacobē Bell, Reshma Ramkellawan

STEM

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3D Printed Timeline

Ninth grade students in the MPX Program at Mid-Pacific Institute created a timeline of ... [read more]

Heather Calabro

Here Now, Gone Tomorrow

students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered ... [read more]

Curtis Taylor, Ivan Recendez

Education Accessibility

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LeDerick Horne on Supporting Students in Quarantine

In this episode, Alec talks to LeDerick Horne about what teachers can do to support kids ... [read more]

Alec Patton, LeDerick Horne

La Junta Collective: making a school that heals trauma

La Junta Collective in South Central LA is Rebecca Rodriguez, German Gallardo ... [read more]

Alec Patton, German Gallardo, Rebecca Rodriguez

Arts & Literacy

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Blogging is Writing

For students of the digital generation, blogging can be an authentic and dynamic way to ... [read more]

Charlotte Morrissette, Randy Scherer

Aboriginal Art

Middle school students studied the Aboriginal Art form, including non-naturalistic ... [read more]

Andrea Barrett

Leadership

What Does it Mean to Think Like a Teacher?

Cindy Meyer Sabik

Improving FAFSA Completion Rates

Ben Daley

Lila Speaks.

Juli Ruff

Elementary

The Bee Project

Marissa Adams, Rhea Manguil

A Kindergarten Geology Project You Should Know About

Rosemarie Biocarles-Rydeen

Raptors for Rodents

Jeff Govoni

Middle School

Habia Una Vez

Matt Chapman, Tracy French, Vanessa Medellin

Town Squares: A San Diego Neighborhoods Project

Gary Gould, Maggie Miller, Mary Williams

The Cardboard Chair Exhibition

Shane Duenow

High School

Science Friction

Alfred Solis, Jenny Pieratt, Shani Leader

The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Episode 2: Assembling the Team

Alec Patton

Human Impacts on Local Wildlife

Nick Ehlers

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