Nancy Frey's Blog, page 41
November 18, 2020
Now More Than Ever, Implementing SEL Will Help Teachers and Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a great deal of reflection in schools throughout the nation. As you are probably well aware, significant mental health, social, emotional, and behavioral needs existed before the pandemic, and social and emotional learning (SEL) has been part of education for decades. Although it isn’t a new topic, we […]
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November 16, 2020
How Can You Partner with Parents to Support Young Writers?
Over the last several months, teachers, students, and families have experienced several different learning platforms and iterations of school. Throughout the experiences, both parents and caregivers have expressed the challenges of writing instruction in a virtual or hybrid model. I’ve always recognized the challenges of […]
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November 13, 2020
Student-Led, Real-World Math for Distance Learning
No matter how you are teaching–remotely, hybrid, or face-to-face–your students have a plethora of unique, real world examples of mathematics all around their homes and neighborhoods. They just may not recognize it! Student-Led Math Show-and-Tell is a simple activity that provides students the opportunity to […]
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November 11, 2020
Difference Making at the Heart of Learning
Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented countless times because she knew it would make a difference in the lives of women in the future. She knew that taking a stand, crafting an argument, and ultimately getting to work on behalf of other women would fundamentally change human rights. She […]
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November 9, 2020
Distance Learning – Reflections from a Parent
In March of 2020 life came to a SCREECHING halt. For a brief moment I think we all kind of looked at the “two-week quarantine” as an opportunity to slow down for a minute and count our blessings. That is, of course, only to quickly realize that […]
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September 21, 2020
Simultaneous Learning: Blending Physical and Remote Learning
Early in the pandemic, distance learning was just that: instruction from a distance designed for remote delivery. We all brushed up on our understanding of synchronous and asynchronous learning. As teachers innovated, we learned about what works best in asynchronous situations, including interactive videos of […]
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August 7, 2020
Sharing the Assessment Load in Virtual Learning
In previous posts I have made a case for why we need PBL now more than ever. And by PBL I don’t mean it in the traditional sense, rather I am referring to a modified version of PBL called PBL-lite, which is more realistic in […]
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July 31, 2020
PLCs Need an Activator Now More Than Ever
As school divisions across the globe map out their re-opening plans, never has the importance of high-quality, high-impact teaching been greater. For many of us, this teaching will take a variety of forms from 100% virtual learning to a hybrid of face-to-face and remote learning. […]
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July 14, 2020
AVL 2020: Live on Zoom
The 8th Annual Visible Learning Conference, originally slated for New Orleans, streamed live on Zoom with almost 1,000 colleagues online with us. The conference opened with our MC, Sonja Alexander, welcoming attendees with the New Second Line Song by Mardi Gras Big Shots and Milton […]
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July 7, 2020
Teachers’ Summer Reading List
It’s safe to say that this past year has probably been the most challenging year for teachers around the world, and it’s still a little bit unclear what the 2020-21 school year has in store. No matter what your context looks like in the fall, […]
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