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Blog Post
5 Fun Creative Writing Activities
English Language Arts:
Writing
Qualities of Writing
21st Century Skills:
Communicating
Blog Post
Beyond Compassion: Deepening Learning Through Perspective Shifting
English Language Arts:
Writing
21st Century Skills:
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Blog Post
Conceptual Blending for Creative Thinking
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Creative Thinking
Blog Post
Knowing the Lake: Serving as Lead Learner
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Life Skills
Problem Solving
Flexibility
Initiative
Leadership
Productivity
Collaborating
Blog Post
Thinking Like Breathing
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Problem Solving
Blog Post
5 Keys to Successful Student Collaborations
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Life Skills
Communicating
Collaborating
Social Skills
Initiative
Flexibility
Productivity
Blog Post
5 Hit Shows Featuring Inquiry and Project-Based Learning
21st Century Skills:
Inquiry Process
Project-Based Learning
Blog Post
Getting the Sense of Sensory Details
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Communicating
Writing
Reading
Blog Post
Using Inquiry Projects to Teach Language Arts
21st Century Skills:
Inquiry Process
Project-Based Learning
Questioning
Planning
Researching
Creating
Improving
Presenting
Blog Post
Your Class Calendar as a Meeting Place: Lessons from Stonehenge
21st Century Skills:
Life Skills
Inquiry Process
Project-Based Learning
Initiative
Leadership
Questioning
Planning
Researching
Creating
Blog Post
3 Simple Steps to the 4 C's
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Communicating
Collaborating
Blog Post
Teaching the Process of Learning
21st Century Skills:
Inquiry Process
Questioning
Planning
Researching
Creating
Improving
Presenting
Blog Post
Critical and Creative Thinking: Lessons from Calvin and Hobbes
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Problem Solving
Blog Post
Helping Students Be Awesome
21st Century Skills:
Project-Based Learning
Inquiry Process
Questioning
Planning
Researching
Creating
Improving
Presenting
Blog Post
Unlocking Literacy Across the Curriculum
21st Century Skills:
Learning Skills
Literacy Skills
Communicating
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Technology Literacy
Writing
Reading
Speaking
Listening
Blog Post
Remembering English: One Student’s Voyage through K-12, and Beyond
Blog Post
Dr. Rico's Magic Key: Clustering
Blog Post
Strategies for Connecting Writing and Reading
21st Century Skills:
Reading
Writing
Reading to Learn
Writing to Learn
Blog Post
Attention Span: The Long and the Short of It
Blog Post
Show Me!
English Language Arts:
Revising
Blog Post
Literature Pop Quiz
21st Century Skills:
Reading
Blog Post
Managing a Writing Program Through Reflection, Imitation, and Experience
Blog Post
Literature Is Dead; Long Live Reading!
Blog Post
Sentence Modeling
English Language Arts:
Qualities of Writing
Structure