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Have U.S. Students Fallen Victim to Self-Fulfilling Prophecies?

article originally written for Co-Op Catalyst by Jen Lilienstein I was reminded of an interesting tidbit the other day about the Finnish school system in one of the education news emails I receive the other day. This information has been

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article originally written for LessonPlanet by Jen Lilienstein For many kids, annual standardized testing is one of the highest periods of stress1 during the school year. In fact, according to the Kids Health1 website, the number one kid stressor is

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Smart Reasons to Keep Kids Learning Over the Summer

Smart Reasons to Keep Kids Learning Over the Summer

article originally written by Jen Lilienstein for FamilyShare. For many kids, their mid-July mantra is “lazy”— not “learning.” While summer fun is on the daily agenda, some conceptual calisthenics also needs to make it onto the calendar during July and

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Necessity PLAY is the Mother of Invention

Necessity PLAY is the Mother of Invention

I stumbled across our Monsters, Inc DVD last night and one of the key themes replayed in my mind…the realization at the end of the movie that joy/laughter creates significantly more power than fear.   I think we need to

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#occupyedu: challenge schools to change

#occupyedu: challenge schools to change. One of my fellow bloggers on Cooperative Catalyst, Chad Sansing, has started a group with a mission of giving EACH child a personally meaningful education and a community of learning that includes, involves and inspires

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Have U.S. Students Fallen Victim to Self-Fulfilling Prophecies?

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This is a reprint of an article originally published on Cooperative Catalyst I was reminded of an interesting tidbit about the Finnish school system in one of the education news emails I receive the other day. This information has been

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Butterfly Parents vs. Tiger Mothers

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I don’t know about you, but the message of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua rubs me the wrong way. And this is not to say that I don’t expect my kids to always do their best…but

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Welcome to Kidzmet’s Recipes for Success!

At Kidzmet, we believe that just as a pre-packaged product is not the ONLY way to cook a dish, nor the ONLY dish we should consume, we cannot continue to think about a pre-packaged standard of intelligence to which we

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Parents, Students, Teachers & Administrators are ALL on the same learning team!

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On intrinsically motivating students

On intrinsically motivating students

In late February 2012, EdWeek’s Susan Sandler wrote about Personalization 3.0, or “a hybrid approach of humanity and technology…that uses technology to enhance teacher-student relationships, not replace them.” Sandler references Theodore R. Sizer’s work (late founder of the Coalition of Essential

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