Potato Perspective
We continue to assess our attitudes and behavior toward the ignored and forgotten. This readers’ favorite offers one perspective on our fourth essential question: How do the ignored and forgotten bless me?
Equity vs. Equality
We’re still assessing our attitudes and actions toward the ignored and forgotten. This readers’ favorite helps to answer our third essential question: How can I bless the ignored and forgotten?
“loved by Yahweh”
It’s our second week reassessing our attitudes and actions toward the ignored and forgotten. As we reexamine this reader’s favorite, we answer the question: Why should I care about the ignored and forgotten?
Learner Ownership
Who’s responsible for meeting learners’ needs? You or your students? The last of our trends in education encourages student responsibility in the learning process.
Grit
The down and dirty of Growth Mindset’s effort, Grit is described as passion + perseverance. How can we cultivate it in our students and ourselves?
Growth Mindset
On the way to benchmarks, sometimes students get “stuck” because of a fixed mindset. How can we, instead, encourage a growth mindset? How can we cultivate our own?
Equity vs. Equality
Is there a way for all students, no matter their various starting points, to reach benchmarks. Melissa answers the question by sharing what she’s learned recently about equity.
Benchmarks
This post begins our new series on Trends in Education. Join us every week for the next six. Read, respond, and try it out, starting this week with ultimate goals and their smaller steps.
The Log in my Eye
As we move into the last chapter of the Sermon on the Mount, Melissa shares her struggles with the words, “Do not judge.”
A Teacher’s Weight
Let’s talk about your weight. Melissa gives advice to new teachers about the influence we have over students and how our words carry weight.
Don’t Forget to Breathe
What’s a good way to find stillness in the busyness of teaching? In this post, Melissa talks about how “breathing” helps.
5000 Books
The Eileen Smith Liu Pan Shan Book Project recently donated its 5000th book. Five thousand books may not seem like a lot until you consider where they have gone.
Master Teaching 