This summer I was invited to give an Ignite Talk at my school district’s Teaching & Learning SummeRR Camp.
It’s a talk I’m proud of because in five minutes I was able to share why it’s so urgent to me that we ensure sense making is the focus of our work with students. Students deserve to develop positive relationships with what they’re learning now. It’s a disservice to assume they’ll learn to like it later. We never know what doors are closed to students because they learned to hate a subject or grow up thinking they’re not smart enough.
Teaching to the Beat of a Different Drummer 