Educators at Wallingford Public Schools were looking to increase 21st-century skill development in students and staff while also meeting some financial challenges. In this webinar, Dr. Salvatore Menzo, superintendent, and Joe Corso, principal, share their district’s story of how adopting a lean mindset and lean culture helped them do more with existing resources while increasing innovation and collaboration.
Physics professor and pedagogical researcher Chris Whittaker is a firm believer in the power of active learning. He’s read and contributed to the academic research, weighed the evidence and seen the results in his own classroom. “Students are getting to much deeper levels of conversation in my classes, asking me much more profound questions and engaging with the material in a way that I’ve never seen before,” says Chris, who teaches at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Chris started to experiment with student-centered teaching techniques more than a decade ago. Since then, interest has grown among many of his colleagues who are now using interactive technology tools to take active learning in exciting new directions.
This week was a big tech week for me at work. I ran two peer editing sessions online using Turnitin, led a station rotation activity using Chromebook™ computers, observed students collaborating with Span™ Workspace and our massive Nureva™ Wall, and delivered an online quiz using Google™ Forms and Google Classroom. I collaborated on curriculum with a colleague on a shared Google Docs™ program, shared interactive PDF documents with my principal and connected with students via email. And, yes, I did have face-to-face interactions with students and fellow teachers while doing all of this, thanks to apps like Nearpod.
Just another teaching week in 2018.
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is one of Europe’s top technology institutes with a reputation for world-class research and high-quality education programs. As it looks for new ways to educate and inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers, the 175-year-old university is now focused on modernizing its learning spaces and exploring new technology tools. The goal is to help students build the strong collaboration skills they’ll need to tackle society’s most complex problems.
Whenever Andrew Edwards gets the opportunity to teach, he has one main goal: to ignite his students’ passion for learning. “It’s what we all strive to do day-to-day – capture that interest,” says Andrew, who is deputy headteacher at Hadlow Rural Community School in the village of Hadlow in southeastern England.
He’s a strong believer in the power of technology to get today’s students excited about learning. “I think it’s important to keep up with technology to make sure lessons are vibrant, inspiring and moving the next generation towards bigger and better things.”
There’s nothing quite like an education conference.
Why? It might be the feeling you get sitting in a keynote, knowing that hundreds of teachers are sharing the same aha moments. Maybe it’s the chance to finally get a handle on design thinking or find inspiration for your collaborative learning spaces. Or maybe, it’s simply being freed from the day-to-day routines of teaching, planning and marking to actually talk with fellow teachers.
At Warren County High School in Warrenton, North Carolina, students aren’t just working on a high school diploma; they’re getting a head start on a future career.
The school’s innovative approach to career and college preparation gives students a clearer view of what lies beyond high school. It is an opportunity to develop key skills like collaboration, creativity and problem solving that will help them be successful in their careers or future studies.
Are you intrigued by design thinking but have questions about using it in your school? Need new ideas for turning your students into problem finders and problem solvers? Then you’ll want to hear from Dr. Salvatore Menzo, superintendent of Wallingford Public Schools, about the journey his students and teachers have taken.
At Wallingford Public Schools in Connecticut, design thinking helps educators create authentic learning experiences and achieve the ambitious goals they set for student and community engagement.
The Wallingford 100 Program is a set of guiding principles that raises the bar for the district’s 12 schools, aiming for 100% in three key areas: community involvement, student engagement and student success in school and beyond.
Patricia Klafki, a second-grade teacher at Turner Valley School in Alberta, Canada, knows that collaboration can be challenging. Even as adults, we sometimes want to hold our ideas tight and do everything ourselves. For young students, it can be even harder.
But Patricia also knows just how important collaboration is for school and beyond. That’s why she’s a fan of Nureva visual collaboration solutions, which include an interactive wall and collaboration tools to enable student-led learning like never before.