Educators

An OSMO reference document hosted on edCircuit with permission from Osmo. Written by: Heidy Maldonado, Tangible Play, heidy@tangibleplay.comAriel Zekelman, Tangible Play, ariel@tangibleplay.com Abstract: Inspired by Fröbel and Montessori manipulatives, we …

Dr. Monica Burns shares strategy ideas on navigating digital learning spaces that can be customized to specific environments.

Cultivating an environment where students can risk failure is a critical foundation, but if a project is boring, it’s not going to move the needle on their motivation or the STEM gap.

How can we improve student motivation? Over a period of 5 years, from 2000 to 2005, the US slipped from 18th in the world in math to 40th.

Every individual is born with the potential to develop cognitive skills, but cognitive capacity reflects how well those skills have been developed.

John Churchville, a music teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan, connected with Paul van der Heijden, a music teacher from the Netherlands on Twitter.

As back-to-school time begins across the U.S., many teachers are reflecting on instructional strategies and considering how they can sustain these practices.

Frank Schargel discusses how competitive teacher salaries would lower the attrition rate of nearly one in ten teachers leaving the classroom last year.

As we reflect on practices that have worked well, and take an opportunity to celebrate the successes that so many educators have experienced with their students, we asked some of the teachers named Extraordinary Educators by Curriculum Associates if they had a notable classroom success to share