Shout Outs
Crossnore School
The team at the Crossnore School and Children's Home has consistently dedicated themselves to creating, sustaining, and training others to support a healthy trauma-informed community.
Check out their work at the website below.
Moving Beyond Tests
Matt Kauffman takes you through a remarkable journey of creating a place of meaningful, deeper learning, rather than a test-driven learning culture. Through a process of finding allies in the cause, instilling and supporting student initiative, creating community showcases, and more, he was able to keep a laser focus on the deeper learning initiative.
Behaviorflip.com
The writers at Behaviorflip bring to light key elements of our classroom culture. This blog provides great insight and ideas regarding creating a healthy social-emotional learning environment.
Gifted And Talented/Belonging
"What's wrong with being called a nerd?," and other crucial questions are answered here, but mostly this is a wonderful blog focused on the needs of our Gifted and Talented learners. (SEL, Belonging)
Read Elly Gilbert's work,"Finding a Place Where We Belong" here.
Improving Student Writing
The daunting chore of improving student writing has baffled the best of teachers. How do we get our students to use strategies to create their best work, both rich in content and voice? Joseph Frech takes us down this most important journey.