Project-Based Success in “Most Likely to Succeed”
About 20 years ago, I was teaching in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and met Larry Rosenstock, a really creative vocational education teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school.
Larry saw the power in letting kids drive their own learning process by developing large-scale projects, to which they could apply what they had learned in class...
Rodel Teacher Council Member Spotlight: Tim Brewer
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall while a teacher explained the concept of “spaghettification” to a class full of teenagers, half of whom were listening raptly and the other half of whom were exploding with further questions? I got that chance a few weeks ago when I sat in on Rodel Teacher Council member Tim...
Calling All Teachers: Help Inform Education Prep Policy
by Robyn Howton, Rodel Teacher Council
The teaching profession demands much of the people who enter it. High-quality teacher prep is essential to ensuring that new teachers are ready to help students achieve their full potential from the first day they enter the classroom, and to retain young, talented educators in the teaching...
Striving for Social-Emotional Success
By Michelle Wilson, Rodel Teacher Council
A few weeks ago, Tricia Dallas, my colleague on the Rodel Teacher Council, wrote a post about the importance of social emotional learning in her preschool class.
As a kindergarten teacher, I’ve always been drawn to Robert Fulgum’s findings in, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in...