LTT TEAM BLOG
The Power of Small Changes
This blog was written by LTT Extended Team Member, Karli Lomax as well as teacher Sandra Lima. My school, Graded: The American School of São Paulo – where I serve as an instructional coach – began a professional learning initiative designed to foster deeper learning...
Share the Story of Your Course
This blog post was written and submitted by Learning that Transfers extended team member Kathy Beamer I once heard Usha James from The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2) speak about the “powerful practice” of genuinely bringing in student voice and experiences into...
Authentic Assessments of Learning That Transfers – A Learner’s Experience
This summer I enrolled in the level 3 advanced course about Authentic Assessments prepared by the Learning that Transfers Team. The holidays are some of the best times for learning and after 6 weeks of intense study, collaboration, and reflections it was clear this...
Expansive Framing
Hello educators! Last week I continued with my ‘shifts in practice’ journey, moving on to shifts in the role of curriculum and instruction. Roles of curriculum and instruction Having spent a couple of weeks focused on shifts with respect to teacher and...
Student-Teacher Relationships
It turns out, developing strong teacher-student relationships in a “community of learners” takes more than a week - who knew? This is going to be a “part one of many” kind of blog. Clearly, developing quality relationships is something I have been working on since the...
LTT Foundations
This month I am taking a deeper dive into Shifts in Practice (Chapter 2 of Learning That Transfers). Having had a whistle stop tour of a few LTT staples and wellbeing in August, I thought turning my attention to the foundational elements of Learning That Transfers...
Shifts in Practice (Part 1)
A short blog post this week, just to get started with Shifts in Practice and introduce this month's Try It Together. It was brilliant to feature Emma's experience in last week's post and I am excited to showcase more teachers' reflections in the coming months. Context...
SEL Try it Together
Last week’s LTT newsletter was on point (sign up here) - featuring three great free resources for the LTT community to try out, all focused on social and emotional learning. One of the freebie resources is a set of slides that I used with my mentor group this week (I...
You Just Need Somewhere to Start
An aha! moment When educators are new to LTT, we often encourage them to “just give it a go”. As a team, we have worked hard to create and develop a wide variety of resources, examples and guidance for everything from learning experience strategies to whole-school...
Life as an LTT Educator: Memory Refresh
First week teaching For those of you who have just experienced their first week back after the vacation I am sure we are all feeling similar! It’s taking a little minute to get back into the swing of things at school and I am quite tired this Friday evening. Our...
Life as an LTT Educator
Photo credit: Wood Coasters Info By Julia Briggs Glad you’re here! Welcome to this new weekly blog series "Life as an LTT Educator”. I am so excited to share this school year with you and hopefully make many new connections along the way as we learn...
3 Strategies for Acquiring Understanding of Concepts in English Language Arts
I used to make the best presentations. Attractive design? Check. Multimedia? Check. Gratuitous use of memes/pop-culture to appeal to the youths? Double check. Whenever I introduced my students to new concepts, I’d fire up Prezi (remember Prezi?) and create the most...
