Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has become a new focus in many public school districts across the country. Once dubbed “soft skills,” school leaders are becoming more aware of the importance of SEL within the framework of both school culture and school curriculum.
Thousands of students across Indiana have spent a portion of their lives in refugee camps across the globe. Angie Wiggins shares how educators can support these students as they strive to resettle.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Rebekah Frazer shares resources & ideas for working mental health awareness into every classroom across the state.
Are you having trouble bringing real-world relevance into your classroom? Tracker, a free-use software allows your students to film any physical phenomenon with nearly any device and use that video to pull actual data with regards to nearly any quantity. Students can explore parabolas by filming a ball going through the air, or sinusoidal functions by filming a spring oscillating. The possibilities are nearly endless! In this blog we’ll go through the process of setting up Tracker and how to pull useful data from videos so that you can explore the mathematics behind nearly any scenario!
In this powerful episode, Keep Indiana Learning connects with two educators who are transforming education from the classroom up. Selena Guilbeaux and Raven Cole are classroom teachers who united to create Louisiana Anti-Bias (LAB) Education in 2020. Through LAB Education, they provide Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist professional development This episode is full of honest conversations, classroom tested activities, and authentic, research-based foundations for getting started with Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist education in your classroom. As Selena and Raven share, it just takes baby-steps to get started and begin to make essential, transformational change. You can find LAB Education at https://www.labeducation.net/ and on Social Media: YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
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LAB Education Social Media: YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
LAB Education Six Foundations Flyer
Community Contract Video
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AI offers a whole new world of content creation. Teacher Andrew Pillow shares how he is using Chat GPT to create everything from lesson plans to learning opportunities for students.
In June of 2022, Indiana adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Some may question why such a change was necessary. In this blog, Dr. Stacy Hootman speaks from her own experience as both a science student and a science teacher. She describes the Three Dimensions of the NGSS, where teachers can turn for resources on both a national and state level, and why this change is necessary for Indiana.