The best twelve minutes you will spend today. Changing your drive for success into a drive for happiness and becoming more successful in the process. Enjoy! ted.com/talks/shawn_ac… #Teachers #k12 #GrowthMindset #Happiness

Next Week: Hear from female leaders in education and beyond (seriously, like outer space) at MASA's Women in Leadership Conference! Open to female and female-identifying educators. gomasa.org/events/virtual… #MichEd #MiEducation #MASALeads

A1: Engagement starts with building connections #miched Asking personal questions and sharing about personal life helps students get comfortable and engage in the learning process #miched

A1: Engagement is tied to interest- the best practices I have implemented have been those that minimize my talking, and maximize students’ reflection and purpose. This is different than just having them plan their own lessons- perhaps one could think of it as co-teaching! #miched

Alex Shevrin Venet @lalizabee Use of resources like graphic organizers, notes, and textbooks. Having students talk through/review key points at the beginning and end of the lesson together. With my 5th graders we also made a lot of songs/poems of important vocab or steps (novelty helps)

Join Mark E. Weston Ph.D. and me TOP OF THE HOUR 7:00 PM EDT for HOPE: part one of a very special two-part #WhatIsSchool series for educators. Thank you for retweeting.

Hanna, High School English, MI ! #whatisschool

A1: reassuring, inspiring, heart-warming, proud! #whatisschool

A2) This is a difficult question. For me, the big warning sign is always an abundance of silence! #WhatIsSchool

This 👇🏻 that’s where really knowing your students, observing them. Take time to understand what they need #whatisschool

A3: I remember having a student that was the only one keeping their camera consistently on during class. The day their camera went off EVERYONE felt it, I swear. #whatisschool

A4) The biggests impacts I have had are the moments I make myself available for casual conversations with students. They have few people to talk to nowadays, so making sure they know they can just rant about an interest with me had been my best tactic! #whatisschool

A5) The biggest things I have wanted to try, but haven’t found a way to do one of these online, are mindfulness activities. One of the best things we could do for our students right now is teach them how to relax, and I wish there were more examples of this #whatisschool