My daughters introduced me to ChatGPT in December of 2022, shortly after its release. They laughed at my speechlessness watching it write letters from disgruntled employees, stories about losing a tooth for the first time, essays in favor of four-day work weeks, and explanations of
Amy Berry (2022) argues that when students are engaged, they drive their own learning. To do so, students must know their current level of performance and where they are going next in their learning journey. They also need to be taught a range of learning
Four Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders By Tim Cusack & Vince Bustamante There’s a tremendous need to attract more aspiring leaders into school leadership! The question is: how do we do this? When it comes to nurturing future educators, there are four key pathways that can
A lot goes into learning words and phrases, which are widely recognized as critical to understanding the content of what you are reading. Teaching vocabulary is a critical aspect of overall reading development and is an important strand in language comprehension. After all, while decoding
The one doing the talking is the one doing the thinking. We want to see thinking classrooms where students take ownership, take risks, challenge one another, and create their own projects. Our goal is to see students experiencing this kind of agency in all schools
Scaffolding is an ongoing process of providing front-end, distributed, and back-end scaffolds. Along with peer scaffolding, these are part of our larger model of scaffolding. Source: How Scaffolding Works, Corwin. In this Corwin Connect blog, we take a quick look at back-end scaffolds but read on to