engagement
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Students Plan for a Day of Learning
This is the third in a series of blog posts about strategies I use to help my students take ownership of their learning. The first post was about class meetings. The second post was about giving kids opportunities to determine their own writing and reading plans every Friday afternoon. (Coming soon is the fourth post in this series about using student surveys to Read more
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Class Meetings
This is the first in a series of blog posts about different strategies I use to help my students take ownership of their learning. Today’s post is about class meetings. Recently there was an online debate about what comes first, ownership of learning or engagement? Although I don’t think we came to a consensus on Read more
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Reflection on a Day in Sixth Grade
Today was one of those days in my sixth grade class that I wished I could have recorded. My students were on fire! In the past, I’ve had to spend an inordinate amount of time disciplining students, and although today was not necessarily unique in that sense, it was qualitatively different. Although I had to Read more
Elisa Waingort 