Category: creativity
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Empowering Students
Wow! What a whirlwind of a week. After the mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, several students approached my colleagues and me about how to take on the issue of gun violence in schools and on the streets. They wanted to walk out of school…
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The Declaration of Independence Creatively Translated
Click here to view to the lesson! Creativity holds an important place in the history classroom. Children in an early childhood education setting are encouraged to paint, collage, and use their imaginations to learn about the world around them. At what point during a student’s education does that change? I argue that it doesn’t have…
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Spark Learning
As 8th grade dean, I am part of my school’s Academic Planning Committee. The APC meets once a month to discuss and determine school policies. Department chairs work together to make curricular changes, and grade level deans meet to further improve the social-emotional education of our students. These meetings; however, always begin with the entire…