"Why Blended Learning?" ACE Teaching Fellows Respond from the Heart
For the last several years, we have been invited to teach a summer course for our second-year ACE Teaching Fellows. These are teachers who already have a year of teaching...
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5 Things You Need to Know About Blended Learning
It seems like just yesterday we were beginning our journey with five schools in the Twin Cities. On the last day of professional development, we asked our teams to reflect...
How Exploration Led to Blended Learning
Hi there Higher-Powered Learning blog readers! Today, I have the pleasure of introducing the newest member of our Higher-Powered Learning team: Kourtney Bradshaw. Kourtney is a native of North Carolina...
One Year Ago Today
Last week, we had the privilege of spending three days with the members of the Higher-Powered Learning Program in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. This time together served...
How to Combat the Summer Slide with Technology
If you're anything like me, your mind is probably already on summer. Whether your students finished classes just before Memorial Day weekend or will be doing so within the next...
Is Blended Learning Just a Glorified Form of "Tracking" Students?
One of the most common concerns with blended learning is that it is a glorified form of "tracking" students. In case you are not familiar with the term, "tracking" refers...
The Blended Learning in Catholic Schools Symposium
Catholic school leaders and teachers can sometimes feel discouraged when they hear about the funding available for hardware and software or the staffing models that make classroom management so much...
March Madness
The birds chirping and blossoms slowly emerging from the cold ground signal that spring has finally come again. Now that winter's chill is finally ending and warmer days are upon...
Supporting Our Teachers
I can't tell you how many times "I'll be there for you" gets stuck in my head after watching an episode of Friends. But as cheesy as the song may...
A Guide to Implement Blended Learning in a Middle School Language Arts Classroom
This post was originally posted on the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education's blog for Teen Tech Week. Welcome to middle school: the awkward in-between stage when students are not...