Why Your Mindset About Student Potential Might Be Holding Them Back
Shift the Mindset, Shift the Outcomes: Why What We Believe About Students Matters Most When we believe students are capable, they start to believe it too. But when they are told, directly or indirectly, that they are “not honors-level material,” something inside them...
🌱 Gifts Can’t Thrive in Broken Soil: Why Strengths Alone Aren’t Enough
Consider This Perspective on Neurodiversity When my son Ian was three, he was doing puzzles designed for eight-year-olds. He was that kid who took apart old appliances just to see how they worked. His mind was curious, wired for exploration and innovation. But in...
Draw It So You’ll Know It – A Teaching Strategy for Visual Learners
Teachers often present information verbally and linguistically. However, many of our students are visual learners. A substantial amount of our brain power is devoted to visual processing. When we add a visual component, a drawing component, to what we are teaching,...