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“Play — Learn — Write” Rethinking Informational Writing in the Primary Grades – By Michelle Bamrick | growingeducators
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. 8220;Play Learn Write” Rethinking Informational Writing in the Primary Grades – By Michelle Bamrick. May 28, 2015. As a primary teacher, I spent many years assigning research reports to my budding writers. Year after year, I faced the same problems. First, books and articles were simply too challenging for many of the readers to access making it difficult to pull information from the text. As I shifted into becoming a workshop teacher. With a workshop philosophy. The resea...
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The Playful Classroom: Leveraging the Rules of Improv to Promote Engagement, Community, and Creativity — By April Nickell | growingeducators
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. The Playful Classroom: Leveraging the Rules of Improv to Promote Engagement, Community, and Creativity By April Nickell. June 17, 2015. In my previous blog post. I discussed the important benefits of play in the lives of children and looked at the definition of play. An essential quality of play is that it is spontaneous. In this post, I look to improv principles and games to support classroom engagement, build community, and foster creativity. Improv Rule #2: Don’t negate.
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. Conferring with Readers 101: Strategies to Refresh your Conferring Work By Courtney Kinney. March 1, 2014. As the school year progresses and you get to know your readers better each week, have you reached the point when you sit down with a reader you’ve read with many times before and you ask yourself,. 8220;What am I going to teach this reader that I haven’t already discussed with them? 8221; “What does this reader need for me to teach them to push their thinking? If you ...
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The Playful Classroom: The What, Why and How of Play – By April Nickell | growingeducators
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. The Playful Classroom: The What, Why and How of Play By April Nickell. January 5, 2015. When was the last time you lost yourself in play? Brian Sutton Smith, a leading play scholar who spent his life studying play, wrote a book called The Ambiguity of Play. Is spontaneous and Voluntary (Self-chosen and self-directed). Has structure or rules (that come from the players). Has no extrinsic goals (the means are more valued than the ends). Play From Birth to Twelve. Play is ess...
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Mindset, Motivation, and Moxie: October 2013
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Mindset, Motivation, and Moxie. Enjoy the ride, not just the destination by The Positive Realist. Wednesday, October 9, 2013. Education, standardization, reformation, revolution, transformation, evolution. frustration! The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. I had just seen a fabulously inspiring TED Talk. Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion). Suggested by a colleague. Ken Robinson speaks of people finding their authentic self, the search for who they are. Yet, education has disloc...
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The Close Read of Your Life – By Regina Kim | growingeducators
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. The Close Read of Your Life – By Regina Kim. March 16, 2015. Ok, so maybe I am a little defensive, but believe it or not, I don’t see my 50 viewings of Dirty Dancing. Or what did he mean by that? We all liked Dirty Dancing. From the start because it was scandalous for our conservative-private-school-attending selves (Uh–that isn’t 6 inches between those dancers! Leave room for the Holy Spirit! What about the class struggles? The coming of age story? Saying, and perhaps mor...
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. The Playful Classroom: The What, Why and How of Play By April Nickell. January 5, 2015. When was the last time you lost yourself in play? Brian Sutton Smith, a leading play scholar who spent his life studying play, wrote a book called The Ambiguity of Play. Is spontaneous and Voluntary (Self-chosen and self-directed). Has structure or rules (that come from the players). Has no extrinsic goals (the means are more valued than the ends). Play From Birth to Twelve. Play is ess...
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. Author Archives: Growing Educators. Helping Readers Silence Their Inner Critic and Release Their Creativity By: April Nickell. October 9, 2015. Have you ever been in the situation where you are sitting with your pen in your hand, but you simply have no idea what to write? Often our reluctant and disengaged writers have a hyperactive editor that doesn’t know when to hush up! In my previous blog entry. Especially S&L #4 and #6. Say the first thing that comes to your mind!
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A Consistent Structure for Planning Units of Study in Workshop Classrooms – By Jodi Manby | growingeducators
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COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. EDUCATE. A Consistent Structure for Planning Units of Study in Workshop Classrooms – By Jodi Manby. April 29, 2015. Picture thisa pile of resources, a blank unit planning calendar, lots of page turning, and very little progress in creating a unit. This is how planning a unit of study in writing used to look for me. I told myself, obviously this could not continue! I was wasting so much time trying to figure out where to begin! The first thing I like to do is hunker down with the bo...
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