by reDesign | May 1, 2019 | Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Curriculum
In an October blog post, Everything I’ve Ever Needed to Know About Teaching, I Learned From Black Women: A Recommended Reading List, Akosua Lesesne highlighted the groundbreaking works of ten Black women education theorists whose works have for decades...
by reDesign | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog, Curriculum
Though strong in theory, Essential Questions often wander off into drab and uninspiring standards-land when writing them for a unit. How do we frame learning, right from the start, in a way that maximizes student interest? How can we keep inquiry (and...
by reDesign | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Back in July, Jon Altbergs wrote a post: 6 Ways to Use Drawing to Make Meaning. In it, he wrote about some simple activities that teachers across content areas could use to help students develop their visualization skills and make meaning of content, while also...
by reDesign | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Can you imagine walking into a library, in search of a particular book, to find the library has no classification system in place? Or what about arriving at the airport, passing through security, and discovering there are no flight information display systems or gate...
by reDesign | Oct 25, 2018 | Adult Develpment, Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Early Influencers So, the title of this blog is not completely true. Still, the majority of this piece details why it may as well be true for me and why it should be for you, too. First though, in any discussion on what I know about teaching I’d be remiss not to...
