By AKOM Guest Blogger Sally Hunter I am struck by the reality that schools today require teachers to become skilled performers in an increasingly complex and critical balancing act. In more and more public classrooms, elementary teachers are asked to spend the bulk of their day following impersonal lesson plans, preparing students for mandated [...]
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Tipping the Balance in Students’ Favor
Posted in Classroom Culture, Learning, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Testing on January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One School’s Faculty-wide Exploration of Schools for All Kinds of Minds
Posted in Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiated Learning, Learning, Learning about Learning, Learning Challenges, Learning Specialists, Private School, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
By Mary Mannix, Guest Blogger Last spring, administrators at Indian Creek School, an All Kinds of Minds School of Distinction, searched for a book for summer reading for the faculty that would be meaningful and relevant to teachers across all three divisions of the school, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Why Schools for All Kinds [...]
Embrace What’s Going Right to Pave a Better Road to Learning
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiated Learning, Learning, Learning about Learning, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Student Strengths, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on October 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
By Michele Robinson, Director of Special Projects at All Kinds of Minds and co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds Grab a pen or pencil. Off the top of your head, list 3-4 of your strengths – those things you do well with relative ease. Now list 3-4 affinities – those activities or topics [...]
Seeing – and Nurturing – the Genius in our Students
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Learning, School Culture, Student Strengths, Student Weaknesses, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers on October 14, 2010 | 8 Comments »
By Rick Ackerly, Guest Blogger In the foreword to Schools for All Kinds of Minds, Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s, writes: More than ever, America needs the kinds of minds that generate new perspectives, seek solutions, and discover emerging opportunities. Those are the minds of many of the students in your schools today who, at [...]
The Boy No One Could See
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Learning, Student Strengths, Student Weaknesses, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers on October 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
By Mary-Dean Barringer, CEO of All Kinds of Minds and co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds When writing Schools for All Kinds of Minds, I had multiple insights I wanted to share. Many of these insights were supported by social science research. For example, Malcolm Gladwell and Karl Weick show us how “small [...]
Teachers: What’s Your Framework?
Posted in Attention, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiated Learning, Higher Order Thinking, Language, Learning, Learning Challenges, Research, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on September 30, 2010 | 11 Comments »
By Craig Pohlman, Ph.D., Co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds and Director of MindMatters at Southeast Psych, a learning program in Charlotte, NC In some circles, All Kinds of Minds has become equated with the neurodevelopmental framework it uses, but this framework is only one aspect of their approach to understand learning and learners. [...]
Building Schools for All Kinds of Minds
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Learning, Learning about Learning, Learning Challenges, Learning Specialists, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Student Strengths, Student Weaknesses, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on September 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
In our recently-published book, Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation, our CEO Mary-Dean Barringer makes the point that “Educators, school leaders and policymakers … talk around learning but not about learning,” and she notes that equipping educators with current knowledge from science about how we are wired to [...]
Where are our Learning Experts? (Here’s a clue: They weren’t invited to DC this week)
Posted in Differentiated Learning, Learning, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Mary-Dean Barringer, CEO, All Kinds of Minds There’s a critical meeting in Washington, D.C this Friday, September 17th, on the “Future of the Profession: New Learning Ecology for Teachers and Students.” Billed as “a discussion about the emerging realities facing the nation—the funding crisis, the teacher shortage, and new technologies—that will reshape learning environments [...]
How to guarantee “learning”? Understand the learner AND the content
Posted in Differentiated Learning, Learning Challenges, Research, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers on September 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
By Mary-Dean Barringer, CEO, All Kinds of Minds For several years, many of my colleagues have been urging me to pick a fight with Daniel Willingham, a well respected cognitive scientist: “He doesn’t believe in learning variation!” That may be, but having read his book Why Don’t Students Like School?, I find much in common [...]
Facebook Back-to-School Question of the Week #2
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Learning, Strategies for teachers, Student Strengths, Student Weaknesses, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To help get you in the back-to-school spirit – and maybe pick up some great ideas along the way – we recently started a Back-to-School Question of the Week series on Facebook. This is an opportunity for you to share your thoughts with your virtual colleagues around some key back-to-school questions. We wanted to share [...]
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