"Triage teaches us lessons about the import we place on things in 'normal' times," said Betsy Rafferty, the assistant principal at St. Malachy Catholic School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and a speaker...
For the fourth year in a row, our HPL team convened and planned a national gathering of leaders and practitioners in blended and personalized learning. We love learning from the...
In our last post, we explored how challenges in video games can inform how we design and present challenges in the classroom. Using Carol Dweck's model of response patterns to...
If you are a teacher, I'm sure you've heard your students talking (at length) about Among Us, Minecraft, or Fortnite. Games have always been a central fascination of childhood, from...
"I'm not in the room with half of my students, how do I make sure they're getting all they can from class?" We're often asked by teachers in the Higher-Powered...
In Part 1 of this series we defined four perspectives teachers take to create effective learning environments according to the How People Learn framework. In Part 2, we propose ways...
Your class is just different now. In fact, it's undergone numerous iterations, reversals, and adjustments of which "different" it is. Room layout changes one week, then distance learning the next...
"Switched" by brendonhatcher is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Large-scale school change is possible and can come from the leadership of individual teachers. Higher-Powered Learning has contextualized the first two...
"File:Macbook Pro Power Button - Macro (5477920228).jpg" by vincentq from Melbourne, Australia is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Every day we see schools changing in response to the pandemic: new...
"Old Light Switches" by Orange Steeler is licensed under CC BY 2.0 School change can be intimidating, arduous, and bumpy—like riding a mountain bike down a curvy path. With the...
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