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What happens when projects are not graded?

A reflection from IDEAS Project This is a reflection after our students completed their IDEAS Project in the last week of the school year. The IDEAS Project’s detailed information and rationale can be found in my previous post, Building the community through IDEAS.   I had a meeting with our school parent representatives and successfully got their …

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Creating A Caring and Inclusive Community: Differentiation

Differentiated instructions  The idea of differentiation has been discussed and explored widely among schools and educators. It is an area of development for my school as recommended by our accreditation organizations. Before diving deeper into how we can provide differentiated instructions, it is worth mentioning some common misconceptions about differentiation observed by Carol Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau …

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Book review: The 8 Hour Action Plan

The 8 Hour Action Plan written by Aloha Lavina provides a guide for school leaders to create an action plan for an evaluation or authorization (accreditation) more productively and efficiently. Anyone who has involved with the school evaluation and/or authorization process would agree in unison that the process is draining and uninspiring. The stress and fatigue is probably …

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Develop global competence through service learning

Global competence definition  Global competence is the capacity to examine local, global, and intercultural issues; to understand and appreciate the perspectives and world views of others; to engage in open, appropriate, and effective interactions with people from different cultures; and to act for collective well-being and sustainable development.  (Teaching for Global Competence)  As I am …

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