Continually learning with 🧠The CTTL🎓 !

Outstanding opportunity for Loomis Chaffee faculty to take a deep dive into Mind, Brain, & Education science with @gwhitmancttl. Educators as #brainchangers need to continue to grow our shared understanding of the adolescent brain. #neuroscience #professionalgrowth 🧠The CTTL🎓

Thanks to the Alvord Center Loomis Chaffee Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching for #placebasedlearning classroom set up! French scholars explored, collaborated, questioned, drew, and learned outdoors with their classmates. Extending the mind, by changing the space in which we learn Annie Murphy Paul

Researchers have identified four specific ways to nurture a sense of intrinsic motivation in students: autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance. edweek.org/leadership/wha…

"Creating that sense of being “needed,” however, is a challenge."nais.org/learn/independ… Students and faculty need to feel the importance of depending upon one another. Looking forward to @kravisteaching New Faculty Cohort Loomis Chaffee diving deep into this idea soon!

10 years ago Barak Rosenshine published one of the most useful reviews of research into effective teaching ever written. It's a slam-dunk hit in the UK, but barely talked about in the USA. If you're a USA educator that has never heard of it, here it is: aft.org/periodical/ame…

Loved learning about evolution and competition for resources in Jen Solomon's class. Happy Open Classroom Week. Loomis Chaffee Loomis Chaffee PHI NAIS #CAISCT #PBL #HalloweenOCW

I particularly enjoyed this post from Dave Stuart Jr.: davestuartjr.com/competence-%e2…

What a week! Scenes from Open Classroom Week Loomis Chaffee Teachers learn from talented colleagues, offer meaningful feedback, and observe students learning in different contexts. #researchinformedpedagogy #internalPD #professionaldevelopment #learningorganization #MBEscience

Proud to have seen another Open Classroom Week - beyond grateful for this inspirational Loomis Chaffee faculty who embrace vulnerability, seek wisdom and growth everywhere they turn, all in the interest of student learning #professionaldevelopment #studentlearning #vulnerability

New Faculty Cohort Loomis Chaffee focused in last meeting on reducing cognitive load & retrieval practice. Thanks Ian 🧠The CTTL🎓 for the clear strategies in How to Reduce the Cognitive Load on Students During Lessons edutopia.org/article/how-re… All in the interest of #studentlearning!

During the month of February, the Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching worked with faculty to design authentic assessments exploring and celebrating the contributions of Black Americans in various fields and disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/3F71S4m #LoomisChaffee

Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching Loomis Chaffee excited to share new webpage tinyurl.com/4waft5pu. Includes What Teachers are Talking About podcast & Monday Musings blog; hear from members of New Faculty Cohort! Excited to support teachers and student learning! #teacher#professionalgrowth

Listen to Genuine Admissions podcast with Sara Deveaux and Dr. Fiona Mills Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching as they talk about their work in the Kravis Center, our DEI audit, and all that makes teaching and learning Loomis Chaffee so exhilarating ! tinyurl.com/4saapbb4 #teachingandlearning

Welcome to Loomis Chaffee New Faculty Cohort 23-24! Looking forward to learning with & from these energetic, knowledgeable educators. Reflective, curious, and engaged from day 1. Thanks 🧠The CTTL🎓 for thought-provoking and discussion starter Neuromyth card game! #teacher #education

@kravisteaching Loomis Chaffee is excited to announce another year of Monday Musings! Find the most recent in addition to past blogs at loomischaffee.org/academics/krav…. Written by and for educators. #education #pedagogy

Book chat day Loomis Chaffee. PHI book = "Futureproof" by Kevin Roose. Students were tasked with generating concrete things they could do for each of the 9 rules, plotting them on an Impact vs Feasibility graph, and then committing to do 2 specific ones.

What a day Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching! Started the day at Coffee with Colleagues discussing Dr. Dave Nelson, then paired up to map discussions in each other's classes. Ended the day debriefing observations and identifying core values with this incredible group of faculty new to Loomis Chaffee!

Highlight to the start of spring term Loomis Chaffee is the Celebration of Professional Growth. Ten faculty-led poster presentations, six workshops, &much learning through shared expertise. @Kravisteaching is grateful for this outstanding, growth-oriented faculty. Leadership+Design