From Classroom Questions to Community Solutions: Empowering Students Through Local Problems
“WHEN Will I ever use this in my life?” That is the eternal classroom question. One powerful way to bridge the gap between school and life is by connecting mandated curriculum to local problems. When students see how their learning applies to the world around them, it becomes more impactful. That belief led me to…
ISTE & ASCD Set to Merge in 2023
In recent news, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), a nonprofit that has a wide-range of EdTech offerings for K-12 educators (including professional learning conferences, books, and more), and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), one of the oldest and largest K-12 professional development associations, were announced to be merging in early…