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Navigating middle and high school homeschooling is now more manageable with Lydian's personalized online learning programs. Equip your child with the tools, support, and resources for academic success. https://bit.ly/2UPfDjR

🎥Did you miss last week's webinar, Educator Micro-Credential Pathway Adoption in Rhode Island? Watch the video recording to learn about the benefits of competency-based teacher certification and recommendations for states interested in offering educators high-quality pathways: https://hubs.li/Q02Lyq7y0

LEFT-HANDED children in the classroom and at home; they just get on with it, and sort out any problems for themselves, don't they? Handwriting is just a mirror image of right-hander's isn't it? Well "NO" and "NO" are the correct answers to those questions! To help left-handed children flourish in a right-handed world, you need to be pro-active; and it's NOT rocket science! For the next 2 weeks only, I am offering FREE downloadable interactive CPD training (with paid option of personalised certificates, teachers checklist and resources discount code), link as follows: https://lnkd.in/er-vgT9V "'Left-Handed Children - A Guide for Teachers and Parents,' is a game-changer, earning accolades for its transformative impact" - Greshma Momaya, Founding Principal | Pedagogical Leader

You can still access our 1-hour Reclaiming Classrooms as Spaces of Joy webinar! Learn how joy moves beyond Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to humanize teaching, the classroom environment, and the learning experience. Find it: https://buff.ly/3xvVSRM

Here is another example of the great work our Networks of Expertise are doing to support teachers and ultimately students across New Zealand! Join Gifted NEX as they launch their Gifted 101 programme on May 20th! #NEX #NZteachers #ProfessionalLearning #PeertoPeerlearning

What student challenges occurred when I founded my school 33 years ago? There are 3 modalities of different kinds of learners. They are: 1. Visual Learners who learn best by what they see 👀 2. Auditory Learners who learn best by what they hear 👂 3. Kinesthetic Learners who learn best with their hands 👐 Most of us learn best with what we see; some of us learn best with what we hear; and then a few of us learn best with our hands. The children who learn with their hands need teachers who are aware of their needs in this way or else students often miss out with what is being taught. Class size needs to be taken into account also, so a teacher can teach all three of these learning modalities in the classroom. Too many students in one classroom makes it very difficult, sometimes impossible, to teach effectively to all three modalities. In this video, I tell of my son's needs as a kinesthetic learner when he was in school and how I reached out to teachers who could help enable all three kinds of learners with their learning needs. Then by controlling the class size to help allow the teacher to teach all of the different learning modalities in the classroom, the student challenges can be addressed. Join me at the upcoming Free Workshop this coming June 26th to learn more on how to start your own School! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gPykaUrC

…And the № 1 content on the Best of CLA 2023 countdown goes to Jennifer Oxman Ryan’s blog on a terrific new book from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education on how educators can nourish playful in classrooms and schools. A Pedagogy of Play: Supporting Playful Learning in Classrooms and Schools ”In our new book, A Pedagogy of Play: Supporting Playful Learning in Classrooms and Schools — offered at cost in print and as a free, downloadable PDF — we share an overview of our research and some answers to three core questions: Why do educators need a pedagogy of play? What does playful learning look and feel like in schools? How do educators support playful learning in classrooms and schools?” ”In addition to a theoretical framework, we offer practices, strategies, and accompanying tools for supporting playful learning in classrooms and across schools. Short vignettes from schools across our research sites in Denmark, the US, South Africa, and Colombia make visible what playful practice can look like. And for educators interested in dipping their toes into teacher-research themselves, we share a few guides: one that outlines how to develop a collective understanding of what playful learning means in their community, and another that walks educators through the steps of creating and sustaining playful participatory research study groups.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gf7k3kDJ 🎊 Happy New Year to the CLA community! 🎉

Arming those who teach with knowledge and know how (two different things) is essential and will generate an important ROI - return on instruction. Grateful to the USBE for pouring into those educators who work with our earliest learners!!! The importance of elevating the learning experiences for preschool aged students cannot be underestimated. Take it from us at Age of Learning - we know a think or two about early learning and the impact we have achieved with ABCmouse is the evidence. 😉 #TransformingLearning

Excited to feature our next speaker for the Lecture Breakers Virtual Summer Conference! Dr. Eric Mazur will join us for a live webinar on June 4! The pandemic changed everything, including when, where, and how we teach. I'm looking forward to this session as we re-think what the future of teaching in higher education looks like. Session Title: Breaking Down Classroom Walls and Setting Learning Free Session Description: The rapid transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink my approach to teaching. Moving online laid bare the restrictions imposed by both traditional classrooms and online teaching, and demonstrated that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be improved by making them asynchronous and self-paced in any teaching modality. What may have seemed like a challenge at first, turned out to be a great opportunity to improve the quality of education. Register for the conference today! https://lnkd.in/dAFmxTh