by edtosavetheworld | Jul 4, 2013 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Happy Fourth of July to those of you in the States! While you are celebrating, take this quiz to test out your thinking about active processing. 1) Your students are working on a paper about the causes of the Roman Empire’s collapse. Do you… A) give them a...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 25, 2013 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
It’s the end of the school year and we’re pretty sure as the bell rang on the last day your students were singing something like this: Of course it’s not just kids who were excited for summer. A few hours (and disassembled bulletin boards later), teachers might have...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 20, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
When you read the below misconceptions about leadership, it’s likely that you’ll agree with the fact that they are misunderstandings of leadership. They seem obvious. The tricky thing is it’s very easy to fall into these ideas. Many of them are buried in our...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 19, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
Pause – before you read on, answer this question: What makes an ideal school leader? Got your answer? Good! That will be important later so don’t forget it. As we explore leadership this week, we wanted to hear directly from teachers about makes a...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 5, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership, Stage 2: Active Processing, Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
For the past 2.6 million years humans have been working together to face the challenges of our world. We work together to both survive and innovate constantly building on one another’s ideas. Yet, how often do we design lessons specifically targeted at building...
