MONDAY MICRO-MOVE:
Whatever topic you are teaching, consider the transferable concepts that can can help students to become #patternseekers . It fosters deeper learning & helps them retain facts and details. #conceptualthinking #learningtransfer

Happy Monday to all those who believe students can change the world with their learning. This is what the world demands and our children deserve! #patternseekers

“If my curriculum and pedagogy aren’t sufficiently engaging, is that an argument to rely on grades to coerce students into doing what I want? Or should I gulp and ask some serious questions…?” Alfie Kohn

This book is a gift to educators! Excellent summer read #ungrading

This week our team:
🎯Led an authentic assessments workshop
🖥️ Published a new micro-course
👩🏻‍🏫 Taught 3 lesson labs via Zoom
🔁 Facilitated 4 coaching calls
#patternseekers

Get ready for some BIG news coming from me and my team. We received over 100 excellent applications for an independent facilitator to help us grow. And we are going to hire THREE of them. In the next year, our offerings are going to completely revolutionize professional learning

Elementary students at our partner schools are using the concepts of sustainability, change-makers, tenacity, and leadership with confidence and making teachers burst with pride!

Our students are our future, and we must be careful to properly cultivate their understanding of the world and their places in it.

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Exploring concepts in new situations taps into our prior experiences, aiding understanding. Revisiting them deepens comprehension. Use this tool to brainstorm important concepts, leveraging prior knowledge to unlock new situations in your content area.

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MONDAY MICRO-MOVE: Ask students how concepts connect to point to the deeper patterns of how the world is organized.

Use these stems: bit.ly/conceptquestio…

Happy Monday to all the educators out there modeling life-long learning. 📚 🧑🏽‍🎓 👊🏻

#transferlearning strategies have an effect size of 0.86! Here's a great video on moving students form surface to deep to transfer levels of learning: youtube.com/watch?v=iF9W8U…
#Visiblelearning #surfacedeeptransfer

This week was laser-focused on our partner schools:
🔄 7 coaching calls
🚀 20 unit plans boosted
🧘🏽‍♂️ Well-being celebration planned
💡 Leadership facilitation
💬 Language concepts workshop

In a world where teachers are too often overworked and under-valued, nothing gives us greater joy than supporting them!

Planning for conceptual learning and transfer is to teachers what engaging in conceptual learning and transfer lessons is to students...Recognizing patterns becomes the cheat code to conceptual understanding, critical-thinking, and problem-solving!

One-time only professional learning doesn’t make a lasting impact. All learners—adults included—need time and space to integrate new knowledge into existing frameworks, practice, receive feedback, and reflect.

How does the story of your course unfold? Use this resource to visualize the timelines of your units throughout the year.

Storyboard Example: bit.ly/3QqCmwK

What’s inspiring about your discipline? What role does it play in changing the world? What are the conceptual understandings you want your students to have? Here’s where you write your course’s story: bit.ly/3Qo5pB9

Conduct a 'think aloud' for students:
1. Name a strategy
2. State the purpose of it
3. Use “I” statements to show your thinking
4. Demonstrate how the strategy is used
5. Alert learners about errors to avoid
6. Assess the usefulness of the strategy
(Hattie, et. al 2020)

Happy Monday to everyone working on their own emotional maturity -- the best self-improvement & happiness boosting tool around. 🧘 🧠