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Jill Sims

Approaches to Learning Skills, Part 2: Cultivating Characteristics for Lifelong Learning

The What In the previous post, we noted that many schools and school districts are united on mission to nurture lifelong learners. ...

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Becoming a Lifelong Learner: Approaches to Learning Skills Part 1

Many schools, school districts, and education-related organizations have a mission statement that includes the goal of developing...

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Planning for Positive Student Impact, Part 2: Supportive Practices

In thinking about how to plan supportive practices that might be implemented for positive student impact, we will focus on the question,...

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Planning for Positive Student Impact, Part 1: Process and Focus

A common goal for education is to positively impact students so that they can flourish as learners and human beings. Such a simply stated...

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Creating Caring Cultures, Part 4: Reflecting on Intercultural Experiences

“Reflection is a central feature of experiential education and serves the function of solidifying connection between what a student...

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Creating Caring Cultures, Part 3: Interacting and Empathizing for Intercultural Understanding

“A classroom full of empathetic kids simply runs more smoothly than one filled with even the happiest group of self-serving children. ” —...

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Creating Caring Cultures, Part 2: Actions for Nurturing Intercultural Understanding

“A Senegalese poet said ‘In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what...

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Why is Intercultural Understanding Important?

Intercultural understanding is essential to creating caring cultures where diversity is celebrated and every person experiences belonging.