by upnorthlearning | Apr 25, 2014 | Literacy, Teaching Strategies, Writing
How the paperless classroom goes beyond teacher convenience This post was featured on the Chippewa River Writing Project’s Teachers as Writers Blog this week. Check out the blog for other great posts from CRWP teachers. This is the first in a series of posts...
by upnorthlearning | Apr 19, 2014 | Teaching, Team-Based learning, Thinking
Thursday was a good day! Scratch that – pun intended, as you will see in a moment. Thursday was a great day! Recently, on the PsychTeacher Listserv that I participate in, there was a thread about Team-Based Learning. I was not familiar with this college-level...
by upnorthlearning | Apr 12, 2014 | Literacy
In his book, Deeper Reading, Kelly Gallagher lays out ten reasons that students should read. His ten statements resonated with me, and as I read, I envisioned them as a poster that I could use in my classroom to keep the conversation going about reading. I proposed...
