Approaches to Learning Skills, Part 2: Cultivating Characteristics for Lifelong Learning
Updated: Nov 11, 2023 The What In the previous post, we noted that many schools and school districts are united on mission to nurture lifelong learners. Continuing down that path, […]
Becoming a Lifelong Learner: Approaches to Learning Skills Part 1
Updated: Nov 11, 2023 Many schools, school districts, and education-related organizations have a mission statement that includes the goal of developing lifelong learners. The lifelong learner mission of educators is stated […]
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, “What are the opportunities and activities that need […]
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 goal is actually very complex when […]
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 4: Reflecting on Intercultural Experiences
Updated: Oct 2, 2023 “Reflection is a central feature of experiential education and serves the function of solidifying connection between what a student experienced and the meaning/learning that they derived from […]
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 3: Interacting and Empathizing for Intercultural Understanding
Updated: Sep 12, 2022 “A classroom full of empathetic kids simply runs more smoothly than one filled with even the happiest group of self-serving children. ” — Jessica Lahey The […]
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 2: Actions for Nurturing Intercultural Understanding
Updated: Nov 30, 2021 “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 we […]
Why is Intercultural Understanding Important?
Updated: Apr 4, 2023 (About the Zulu greeting, Sawubona) “It invites us to communicate why are we here at the same time? What has this moment in time given us?” – […]
Inquiry Series, Part 4: What Does Inquiry Look Like from the Students’ Experience?
Updated: Sep 12, 2022 “If you know where they need to go you can plant the clues to help get them there.” -Madly Learning This is the last […]
Inquiry Series, Part 3: What Does the Teacher Do to Create a Community of Inquiry?
Updated: Apr 12, 2021 “Curiosity facilitates engagement, critical thinking, and reasoning. We nurture children’s curiosity and other life-long learning skills when we encourage them to identify and seek answers to questions […]