Welcome to my classroom: a tour of five strategies
I hope you enjoy this walkthrough of 5 student-centered practices I use in my literature classroom: 1. Collaborative literary analysis:...
How do we prepare for a future in which the only constant is change?
I wanted to share this video I put together to help educate current and prospective students and parents about the benefits -- and...
Six Kagan Structures in 50 Minutes
This is a brief snippet of our November PD at Mingdao High School on six Cooperative Learning Structures. In under 50 minutes, we used...
Our First MYP Interdisciplinary Unit!
Click here for the Little Britain assignment handout for students, visitor scorecard, and student self-evaluation. It's been a whirlwind...
The International Marshmallow Challenge
Experience for yourself why recent kindergarten graduates often outperform Harvard Business School students on the International...
IB MYP Professional Development
Our first official IB MYP professional development! On Saturday, May 21st, 2016, the faculty of Mingdao High School's Global Citizenship...
EdPuzzle: Differentiation, Engagement, Accountability
"Make any video your lesson" is EdPuzzle's tagline, and fittingly, this free and user-enriched website has become the darling of the...
The Great American Novel Teach-off
Student groups collaborated to create EdPuzzle tutorials using clips from The Great Gatsby and invited teachers and administrators to...
Collaborating THROUGH Technology: Return of the Active Classroom
Anyone into Flipped Classroom knows that EdPuzzle has revolutionized the student-centered classroom. I began to rely on it heavily in my...
Embrace Error with Error Analysis Logs: Make Grading Meaningful
The Error Analysis Log (EAL, linked HERE) is a strategy that evolved in reaction to a predicament known to all humanities teachers. We...