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Tech Corner: What Makes a Good Password?
You may have a bad password Most people have one or two passwords they use for everything—email, school, work, banking, social media. And most people have bad passwords. The top five passwords from...
View ArticleFriday Video: Blending Arts and Sciences
Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go to space, says, “Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.”...
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School of the Week: Grand River Academy
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Grand River Academy/Austinburg, Ohio/105 Students/All-boys, boarding school/Grades 9-PG/Founded 1831. Who is your school’s...
View ArticleVIDEO: 21st Century Skills from 60 Schools
This morning at our staff meeting, we watched Grant Lichtman‘s TEDx Talk on “What 60 Schools Can Tell Us About Teaching 21st Century Skills.” Last year, Grant embarked on a journey in which he visited...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Your First-Day Classroom
It’s that time of year again! Whether or not you’ve started school yet, that back-to-school buzz is in the air. The first day of school is an exciting time for both teachers and students–it’s a day...
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Tech Corner: Software Highlight-Dropbox
What is Dropbox? Dropbox is a free file-sharing service that facilitates easy sharing of documents, photos, and videos. What can you do with Dropbox? In a previous post, I talked a bit about using...
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Missing the (Grade) Point (Average)
There’s been a lot of talk about changing the way we “do school.” One of the big problems with this talk is that few people seem to be focusing on the engines that are actually driving this train,...
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Cultivating Innovators in Independent Schools
We are thrilled to welcome Greg Bamford to the Puzzle today. Greg is the co-founder of Leading is Learning, the Santa Fe Leadership Center’s Incubator for Teaching and Learning. Follow Leading is...
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School of the Week: Bosque School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Bosque School/Albuquerque, NM/Founded in 1994/Opened in 1995/535 students in grades 6-12. Who is your school’s...
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Tech Corner: The Wonders of Excel Pivot Tables
If you have some data in Excel that you want to interpret, pivot tables are great, easy, and visual way to do so without having to figure out complicated formulas or do a lot of sorting and re-sorting...
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School of the Week: Blair Academy
School name/location/number of students/grade level/year of founding: Blair Academy/Blairstown, NJ/450 coeducational students in grades 9-12/founded in 1848. Who is your school’s best-loved/legendary...
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School of the Week: Breck School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Breck School/Golden Valley, MN/1150/P-12/1886 Who is your school’s best-loved/legendary teacher? Too many to list! We have an...
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STEM Roundup
One of the best parts of working in the education sector in the 21st century is watching the ways in which teachers (and students!) express their creativity. Increasingly, the channels for...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Blended Learning
Teachers: do you incorporate blended learning into your classrooms? If you do, let us know how you do it in the comments! Source: TopMastersInEducation.com
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Know When to Fold ‘Em
One of my mentor teachers from back in the day and all around favorite people of all time, George Smith (Quincy High School, MA/USA) once told me, “don’t forget to sub for yourself.” As a new teacher,...
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Elementary Edition: The Reggio Emilia Approach
In the fall, we – the Placement Associates and Placement Counselors at Carney, Sandoe & Associates – spend a lot of time visiting current client schools, former client schools, and new schools with...
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School of the Week: Holderness School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Holderness School/Holderness, NH/275/9-12/1879. What is one interesting/unique/quirky feature of your campus? It’s so hard to...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Teaching Halloween
Halloween is just a day away, and you might feel just as excited as your students. The holiday provides rich material for fun lesson plans in many subject areas. How will you incorporate Halloween...
View ArticleVIDEO: Halloween-Themed TED Talks
It’s no secret that we love TED Talks. With TED’s library of quirky, inspiring, and educational videos, you can learn something new in no time at all. If you have some downtime on this Halloween Day...
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RECAP: Learning and the Brain
Twice each year, we attend the Learning & the Brain Conference—and twice each year, we are so impressed by the quality of both the event itself and of the teachers, counselors, and learning...
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