Essential Questions for Educators (EQ4E)

Part of improvement is knowing your starting point. These five levels help identify your current location as well as how to get to the next levels!

There is a difference between a busy classroom and engaged students. I have some thoughts...

While I believe the answer to the EQ4E blog title is a big "yes!!!", there is a continuum. BUT - I believe every administrator should get back into the classroom. I have some experience and thoughts...

Listen in on a conversation with traditional professional development's biggest critic - my wife, Dani. Don't touch her planning period!!!

Resolutions are not hard to come by, but "improving in your craft" might not be toward the top of the list. I suggest three resolutions to help you improve and become the educator you were always meant to be.

How can you help students learn and study more effectively? And what about your own learning? Make it Stick is a book from Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel that hits the "Illusion of Knowing" head-on and offers solutions based on research.

Bos updates us on a recent road trip, the state of recess, and good things going on in his education life!

Learn about an instructional design model/template that is as universal and flexible as you are! Whether you adopt the model or learn from it, the Workshop Model has something for everyone.

Chat GP - what?!? How can Chat GPT help teachers? And teachers as learners? Let me count the ways... or at least a few. And another impressive AI resource for teacher. This is just the beginning...

Do your students understand what they understand? Mine didn't - so I came up with a way to help them calibrate their understanding of reality - something they could benefit from for a lifetime.