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When Your School Is Short on Tech
Listen to this post as a podcast: So there I am, right in the middle of a presentation on HyperDocs, showing a group of teachers how they could use this online framework to build all kinds of...
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What Teachers Want You To Know: A Note to School Administrators
Listen to this post as a podcast: Dear School Administrator, I begin this letter with some hesitation, because I know you were a teacher once. Nothing I say here should be new to you. So why would I...
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: 4 Misconceptions
Listen to my interview with Zaretta Hammond (transcript): Sponsored by Raymond Geddes and Kids Discover The term “culturally responsive teaching” has been around for decades, but it seems to have...
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Boost Your Assessment Power with GradeCam
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. We all know assessment is a key component of good teaching. And it’s most valuable when we can apply what we learn from it right away: Getting...
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Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You’re Not Using
Listen to my interview with Pooja Agarwal (transcript): Sponsored by Raymond Geddes and Kids Discover We’ve talked about retrieval practice two other times on this site: First in 2015, when we read...
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When Students Won’t Stop Talking
Listen to my interview with Michael Linsin (transcript): Sponsored by Write About and Peergrade In my first few years of teaching, student talking was like popcorn. I gave the class instructions for...
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When We Lose the Right to Call Ourselves Professionals
In the last few days, I have seen two stories that disturbed the hell out of me. We need to talk about them. The Box The first came from Iowa, where some schools have a practice of putting students...
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The Great and Powerful Graphic Organizer
Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Write About and Peergrade Some of our most powerful instructional tools have been hanging around forever, just waiting for us to notice them. One of...
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Making School a Safe Place for LGBTQ Students
Listen to this post as a podcast: Proudly sponsored by Write About and Peergrade Depending on where you live, you might think we’ve reached a point where society has truly embraced people of all...
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Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online
As our students create more and more digital products—blog posts, videos, podcasts, e-books—they should be using images to enhance them. Images grab an audience’s attention, they can illustrate key...
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What is an Innovation Class…and Why Do You Need One?
Listen to my interview with Don Wettrick (transcript): Sponsored by mysimpleshow and Peergrade This post contains Amazon affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy...
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How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading
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The Story of the Students and the Replacement Books
On some days, teaching can crush our souls. But on other days it does the opposite. This story is about both kinds of days. Hannah Thompson is a high school English teacher at Monrovia High School...
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The Magic of Validation
Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Kiddom and mysimpleshow I have a multiple-choice question for you. Suppose you’re standing at your classroom door, greeting students as they arrive....
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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018
Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Kiddom Around October of every year, while teachers are waist-deep in curriculum, kids are thinking about what they’re going to be for Halloween, and...
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On False Equivalence and Classroom Debate: A Follow-up to “Inviting...
On Sunday, I published this post: Inviting Controversy Into Our Classrooms. I had asked my friend Philip Russell to write it after he shared on Facebook about how well his students were able to...
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Moving from Feedback to Feedforward
Listen to my interview with Joe Hirsch (transcript): Sponsored by Kiddom and Pear Deck This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a...
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What Teachers Want You To Know: A Note to School Administrators
Listen to this post as a podcast: Dear School Administrator, I begin this letter with some hesitation, because I know you were a teacher once. Nothing I say here should be new to you. So why would I...
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Are You a Curator or a Dumper?
Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Peergrade and Pear Deck Suppose you know a lot about a certain topic. For the sake of argument, let’s say that topic is sushi. One evening you’re on...
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Restorative Justice in School: An Overview
Listen to my interview with Victor Small (transcript): Sponsored by Pear Deck and Peergrade This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy...
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