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Mentorships and Kids
Here’s an overview of why mentorships are increasingly popular, including benefits, structuring guidelines, and lots of helpful information for parents, teachers, and kids.
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New Study Finds Student Creativity is at Risk at School
A recent study found that there is a gap between student creative expression at home and at school. Find out which types of students experience this gap and how to help them thrive.
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9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us
A list of things that we don’t really want to talk about in education.
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Peter Sims Explains How “Little Bets” Spur Big Creative Successes. (Podcast)
Award-winning author Peter Sims shares some heartening research on how people like Steve Jobs, Chris Rock and Frank Gehry use small experiments to lay the groundwork for big creative successes. (...) Also, Scott and Peter banter across a wide spectrum of topics including improving education, the empathy deficit in America, deliberate practice and the importance of marching to the beat of your own drummer.
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Mute, Not “Dumb”
People, and especially educators, need to become aware that “not talking” is not the same as “not thinking”.
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What Happens To Students Who Enter College Early?
What are the desired traits in a romantic partner among highly gifted and accelerated students? #1 is Intelligence
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Three Secrets To Becoming A Better Teacher
Elizabeth Green, author of Building a Better Teacher, on how we all can learn to be better teachers.
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Teacher Ice Bucket Challenge: Save One Child This Year
I nominate you for the challenge: save one child's life this year.
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The Benefits of Movement in Schools
Regularly-scheduled movement breaks throughout the day and movement used within and between lessons results in better-behaved, more engaged students who can more easily focus on and retain what they are supposed to be learning.
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Read to Your Child Starting at Birth: It’s Good for Learning, Thinking, Imagining, and Relating
A child whose parents read to her, starting from birth, is more likely to do well in every area of life. She’ll start school with better language skills, find it easier to make and keep friends, feel better about herself, stay in school longer, and do better, both personally and professionally. That’s why the American Academy of Pediatrics is now asking 62,000 pediatricians across America to talk to parents about the importance of reading.
