Here are some excerpts from K12 educator Tom Whitby’s recent blog titled: The Key to Educational Reform. We think you will find his insights and suggestions very helpful for improving K12 professional development: Tom Whitby: “The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are
As promised, RE@L brings you the second STEM Case Study, this one from Jackie Murdock LaFrenz, another “Passionate Practitioner” from Oregon, and wife of last week’s guest blogger, Todd LaFrenz. Jackie LaFrenz is the Head Teacher and 4th grade instructor at Powell Butte Community Charter School in Powell Butte, OR. The charter school began when the local district decided to
RE@L is proud to bring our readers a “Double Perspective” of Case Studies on STEM-based Real World Learning. This kind of learning goes by many names these days: STEM, STEAM, PBL (Project-Based Learning), EL (Expeditionary Learning) to name some. Todd LaFrenz and Jackie Murdock LaFrenz are dedicated teachers from Bend, OR who use these powerful principles,
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We wish all our many RE@L Readers A very Happy Thanksgiving from us here at Real Experiences At Life. We are thankful that you and so many other readers follow our RE@L Blog and RE@L STEM Case Studies. Thanks for ALL YOU DO to help More Students Learn More. We are both dedicated to the same
Editors’ Note: From time to time our RE@L Blogsite will repost a RE@L STEM Case Study as they appear sequentially on our RE@L Homepage. Welcome To Our New RE@L Website Feature: “Learning More From STEM Case Studies.” If you are one of our regular RE@L website readers, you know well that RE@L has long been supportive of more effective
Editors’ Note: From time to time our RE@L Blogsite will repost a RE@L STEM Case Study as they appear sequentially on our RE@L Homepage. As always, your comments and suggestions are appreciated. Simply email us at the address below. ====== Welcome To Our New RE@L Website Feature: “Learning More From STEM Case Studies.” If you are one
RE@L is truly pleased to have found an informative article on traveling “The Oregon Trail,” by Jennifer Billock in the current online Smithsonian Magazine. Fascination with The Oregon Trail never seems to end. It always finds new legs, or to be more accurate, more wagon wheels moving. It keeps on rolling along. Fans and gamers are still following
RE@L welcomes Guest Blogger Dolly Santos to our growing list of contributors on cutting-edge EdTech topics. Dolly blogs regularly on her site: DollyMath.com, with useful tips and current information for teachers, kids and parents. Dolly picked a topic dear to our RE@L heart: EdTech Resources for K12 that focus on the latest technologies. Technology makes our many
Let’s Ask Instead: What DOESN’T Work? — Why? It Can Lead Us To What DOES WORK! Your Blogmeisters were both math teachers who cut our teeth and sharpened our pencils and chalk-nubs in the early 60′s. EdTech and EdReform were just beginning to come up on our national radar. When then President Kennedy made his famous, “Ask Not…” inaugural speech, we took