It’s Time To Kick The IDK Bucket
Students say “I don’t know” all too often, and some teachers call them out for doing so. Now, we can kick the IDK bucket. Connie Hamilton explains in this excerpt from Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom.
The Problem: Students use...
Throw Out Your Office Referral; Circle Up Instead
Traditional discipline calls for rules and consequences, detentions, suspensions, and other carrots and sticks. Most teachers and school leaders know this ancient system does not work. What’s the answer to poor student behavior and school and class disruption? It may be as simple as...
How To Transform Your Library Into A Real Learning Community
Is your school library mostly a place to store books? Is it empty and silent? What if you could transform your library into a dynamic learning hub?
Award-winning school librarians Kristina Holzweiss and Stony Evans are on a mission to incorporate library media centers into your learning...
Changing The Conversation With Parents
Is it time to reconsider parents’ role in teaching and learning in your space?
Parent and family involvement in education can now be so much more than a phone call, open house, or parent-teacher conference.
In her new book, Hacking Early Learning, Principal of the Year Jessica Cabeen...
Separating Feedback and Evaluation
Hey evaluation, you can’t fool teachers who understand assessment; we know you are not feedback.
You won’t find this sentence anywhere in Hacking the Writing Workshop, by Angela Stockman, but in the Hack about creating a writer-centered workshop, Angela clearly expresses that writer-...
What If Teachers Could Extinguish Shame?
Shame permeates our schools and classrooms. Kids shame their peers and, sometimes, usually unwittingly, teachers shame their students.
Compassionate classrooms, detailed in Hacking School Culture by Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray, extinguish shame.
Read the excerpt below to find out how to...
Why Grading And Evaluating Are Not Assessment
Times 10 Founder Mark Barnes wrote about revolutionizing assessment by going gradeless in Education Week’s 10 Big Ideas special report. Some readers are intrigued, and some are pushing back.
In Episode 110 of the Hack Learning Podcast embedded above, Mark takes on the...
Your Mission: Teach Kids To Debate, Rather Than To Diss People On Social Media
Love him or hate him, it’s hard to argue that the president sets a great example of social media use for kids.
In her breakout book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom, internationally-renowned presenter and education technology...
