TRANSFORMING LEARNING FROM THE GROUND UP
The Keep Indiana Learning Math and ELA Content Specialists have come together to create a comprehensive ILEARN ‘Ease of Use’ document for Indiana educators.
This will be a follow-up blog post to our Keep Indiana Chatting, “How’s it Going” conversation. Podcasts are a great way to rest and rejuvenate! This blog will share some of the most popular podcasts across multiple genres.
We know writers need feedback, but we know the feedback takes time. Here’s help in working smarter & faster to get your writers the feedback they need.
Escape rooms are more than a “Saturday night with friends” activity! Learn how to bring the fun to your classroom!
Getting the brain ready to learn is an often overlooked step. Let’s explore some strategies!
What’s all the buzz around having a growth mindset? Do I have one? How do I know? Having a growth mindset is an important characteristic for teachers and leaders in today’s world of education. Blog Bonus – A free resource awaits!
Makerspaces sound, and look, fun! What are the learning benefits to students?
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!
Schools today are facing many challenges and one of them that needs solving now is how to handle learning loss. One solution to this problem is Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a creative process that begin with empathy and problem defining and end with implementation. This creative process encourages students to redefine problems, inspire new ideas, take informed risks, and never stop learning.
Our goal as educators is to develop a reading environment where students are so engaged in books that the strategies of avoidance disappear from the classroom. What might help our readers appreciate books more? How do we build passion for reading?
Keep Indiana Learning compiled a resource that can be used to contribute to making an informed decision about the best textbook series for your teachers and students.
I wanted to create a space where my students could make mistakes and be okay, where they actually liked coming to my class, where they felt “smart” in their own way wherever they were in their learning, where they would push themselves to do better than yesterday, where they could struggle with something and still be alive to tell about it.
