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🎯 Permission to Try (and Fail): Creating a Culture of Courage in PBL

Forget Perfect—Let’s Make Learning Brave Messy, Uncertain, Amazing If you want students to take ownership of their learning, try new things, and push the boundaries of what they think is possible — you’ve got to build a classroom where risk-taking isn’t just allowed, it’s expected...

by Times 10 & Hack Learning Team — Apr 22, 2025 creativity pbl school culture student engagement

Empower Kids Online: A Must-Have Resource for Digital Citizenship!

Turn Your Students into Savvy Digital Citizens In the midst of researching this week’s blog post entitled, “Level Up Learning: How Gamification Transforms the Classroom,” we came across a gem we just have to tell you about (if you don’t know about it already): Common Sense Media E...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Feb 19, 2025 digital literacy leadership student engagement what's best for kids

4 No-Fail Feedback Hacks to Keep Your Students Motivated 🚀

How Effective is Your Feedback? Is It Helping or Hurting? Dear Feedback, It’s You, Not Me How good is the feedback you share with your students? Is it truly helpful or just what you think you should be doing? Actually, it’s estimated that one-third of feedback interventions ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Feb 13, 2025 anxiety assessment student engagement student motivation

Multiply the Fun with Math Hacks

Bring the Joy Back to Math Class What do you think of when you hear the word “fun”? Does it involve silly facial expressions? Being with certain people? A particular activity? Games? Math class? Yeah, no one usually mentions “fun” and “math class” in the same sentence. Yet, we’ve ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Jan 16, 2025 social emotional learning student engagement writing

Teach Your Students to Digitally Debate, Not Hate

8 Fun, Effective Steps In today’s digital age, social media is a powerful platform for exchanging ideas, sparking conversations, and fostering global connections. However, it’s also a space where disagreements can escalate into offensive and divisive exchanges. Teaching students how ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Jan 09, 2025 social emotional learning student engagement writing

3 MORE Great Ideas to Engage Your Students, Part 2

More Game-Changing Ideas Messiness Isn't Always a Bad Thing While a certain amount of structure can work in some classrooms, what most teachers need is some messiness—the kind of chaos that excites today’s learners. Need tips and tools to liven up your classroom? Want to reimagine yo...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Dec 26, 2024 classroom management creativity student engagement

3 Great Ideas to Engage Your Students, Part I

Together We Can Tackle the Engagement Challenge! Keeping your students engaged is an ongoing and often onerous and thankless task. Between endless distractions, shifting learning environments, and the sheer diversity of needs in the classroom, getting students to genuinely connect with...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Dec 19, 2024 assessment classroom management student engagement

Conquer the IDK Monster

From Blank Stares to Bright Ideas: Tackling "I Don’t Know" Some of the most frustrating three words we all hear from our students are “I don’t know.” Then there are the physical equivalents: blank stares, shrugged shoulders, averted eyes and noises such as “uhhhhh ….” Even worse ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Dec 05, 2024 motivation school culture student engagement

Ever Heard of a Learning Lifeguard?

Save the Day: Be a Learning Lifeguard for Struggling Students! Part of this text is taken from Learning Lifeguards by Sherri Nelson. Ok, admit it: when you read the word “lifeguard,” what is the first image that popped in your head? How many recalled a super-cool character from one...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Nov 28, 2024 leadership school culture student engagement

Teach students to be pinball wizards with these 5 question hacks

All students must have collaboration skills in order to be competent communicators. These skills include absorbing what is heard, probing, articulating, expressing ideas clearly, and building on others’ thoughts. When well-executed, these skills produce a synergic result. Without this set o...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Oct 28, 2024 instruction questions student engagement

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