Project Based Learning Ideas and Resources
Designing Dynamic Virtual PD
VLOG: Designing Dynamic Virtual PD Check out my IGTV where I share my takeaways from designing dynamic synchronous PD. More resources below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Mwwk5YJCY&feature=emb_logo Takeaways and resources mentioned: Blend it up—-> Model the synchronous sandwich [...]
The Thing about Choice Boards in Virtual Learning
The Thing About Choice Boards… #Realtalk: There’s a Thing Choice boards are getting a lot of love right now as an option for student learning activities in virtual learning environments. Choice boards are simply bingo-like, often [...]
Discussion Protocols for Virtual Learning
Virtual Discussion Protocols: A Facilitator Toolbox Getting participants, whether they be students, conference attendees or teachers to participate in a virtual workshop, staff meeting or lesson activity can be challenging...for many reasons...and I was reminded [...]
Virtual Learning Activities to Promote Student Collaboration
Virtual Learning Activities to Promote Student Collaboration Amongst many questions facing teachers and school leaders right now, one that I seem to keep coming back to is ‘what will COVID collaboration look like?’ Whether it [...]
Leading Virtual Professional Development
Leading Meaningful and Engaging Virtual PD As we prepare for Back to School PD meaningful and engaging learning for adults will be just as important as it is for children. To help instructional leaders plan [...]
The ONE thing to do in Virtual Learning
The ONE thing to do in Virtual Learning Relationships matter in teaching and learning. full stop. And any educator will confess that likely what got them through the transition to virtual learning this past Spring~ [...]
Sample Elementary Virtual Learning Lesson Plan
Virtual Lesson Plan Elementary In a recent post I shared a virtual learning lesson plan template; This post is taking it one step further to show what it would look like in action by building [...]
5 Tips for Parents Doing Distance Learning Pods
Distance Learning Pods: A New Parent Frontier for the Fall With every school district announcement of a return in a fully virtual format there is a domino effect within every family: The unknown feels scarier, the [...]
A Synchronous Sandwich: The Virtual Lesson Planning Template
The Virtual Lesson Planning Template As states continue to announce that many schools are returning to a fully virtual model, and others will return with the capacity to quickly revert back to virtual learning, it [...]
Tech Tips for PBL: Google Docs
5 Tips for Streamlining PBL with Google Docs As we anxiously await many district decisions about the Fall, teachers are collecting resources for a variety of situations-including hybrid learning, virtual learning, or face-to-face learning. With [...]
Awesome Ideas for Making and Inventing at home
Design Thinking at Home I love Design Thinking for learning in every setting- school, home, industry, LIFE! For more about why Design Thinking is awesome for you kids, check out this article. And to better [...]
PBL-ish ideas for Parents
PBL-ish ideas for Parents HERE is a list of PBL-ish ideas for parents that I shared last summer on social media. These ideas are all in the wheelhouse of PBL-lite and could be easily built [...]