@ifireup@edutopia Words matter to kids. Adults who set up learning environments where students' agency, authority, and identity are cultivated can make a difference in the way students see themselves as individuals who can achieve their full potential. Thanks to educators who do this work everyday
Teaching more vocabulary is NOT rigor. Teaching more content is NOT rigor. Testing more is NOT rigor. The Teacher doing more is NOT rigor. Allowing students to struggle and think deeply about phenomena and problems is rigor. The struggle is real... and critically important.
Come join us soon to hear about ed innovation in #Chicago at an evening reception hosted by @leapinchicago@AUSLChicago@Distinctive_Edu! Mingle with some of our awesome educators and friends and enjoy the gorgeous weather tonight at #ASUGSV19 :)
The highlight of my day was seeing one of my former teachers who was instrumental in our whole school transformation, Jannette Moya presenting @ASCDconf #cps#leapinchicago@BelmontCragin
.@BelmontCragin Principal @Rev_principal and her team of dedicated educators transformed their entire school to make sure it was meeting the needs of each and every student. Watch how they did it. #personalizedlearning
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Edtech friends, @leapinchicago is here at #sxswedu! Let’s talk selection, implementation and evaluation of edtech through the lens of our Pilot Program, where we work with Chicago educators first & foremost on the what and why of the invaluable work they do #personalizedlearning
How do you increase reading and math attainment, student enrollment and exceed state and district levels for teacher retention... all in 5 years? @Rev_principal has a few ideas. https://t.co/WQEYSJhpXb #personalizedlearning
"The unit of change is not at the school board or the district. It’s at the school level. We’ve got to create a movement and waiting for the top down eureka is not going to happen. It has to happen at the ground level." @PhyllisLEAP#SXSWEDU
"Students are taking a way more active role in the learning process. They are engaging in the productive struggle that enables them to develop. The level of self confidence of my students has shot through the roof." #StudentAgency#SXSWEDU@principalcjones
Carolyn Jones of Perkins Bass elementary school has a 96% retention rate for staff. Full core team is in place since the beginning for the work they've done with @leapinchicago
My powerful and eloquent @leapinchicago colleague @JessatLeap sharing her “why”: “a small group of people with a big idea and consistent determination can alter the trajectories of entire generations.”
New on the LEAP Blog: @ChiPubSchools graduate and LEAP team member @JessatLeap writes about arriving on @NorthwesternU's campus as a freshman, the quick realizations she had about inequity, and how the experience shaped her career and passions. https://t.co/79YexzaLa2
#Inspired by @susanranliu and her thoughtful piece. "At LEAP, we strive to work only with edtech partners who place the same premium on context and listening that we do, and I’m filled with gratitude and optimism whenever I remember all the edtech partners of ours who truly do."
Read about how LEAP's Edtech Program Manager, @susanranliu, draws upon her own experience with tech in order to ensure that #edtech in LEAP schools are tools educators can use to support more engaging - and properly challenging - #personalizedlearning. https://t.co/HQ8w3e0a3O