These are the slides and resources from my plenary for Westcliff University, Navigating the Seas of Innovation: Empowering Students to S.A.I.L (Several Attempts in Learning) shellyterrell.com/sail.html #PBL #STEM #STEAM

Lots to learn from summer! ☀️

🧠💬 Teaching kids how to explain their thinking? Try the “Because, But, So” strategy! 🟠 Because – explain why 🟢 But – show contrast 🔵 So – show result youtube.com/watch?v=YJi093IO…

"If you the power to make someone smile, do it. The world needs more of that." ~Unknown

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Introducing: Brisk’s Podcast Generator 🎧 No, we didn’t launch Crimes Against Planning Periods (yet 😎). But we did make it possible to generate podcasts. Use any lesson, resource, or topic → get audio with synced transcripts, 40 translations, and use Boost tools to make it interactive. Now in the Create menu. (1/3)

Active April - Day 3: Listen to your body and be grateful for what it can do actionforhappiness.org/activ… #ActiveApril

The stage of maturity of your learning/improvement network or community of practice impacts how much difference it can make. @SFU Faculty of Science identifies three stages: 1) "Knowledge Weaving" prioritises the exchange of tacit knowledge within the network or community. Collaboration & connection enable valuable experiential knowledge to be exchanged. 2) "Collaborative Learning" is about taking that tacit knowledge further to support members to experiment & learn, generating new & emergent approaches which are further shared. 3) "Systems of influence" extend influence beyond the community or network by advocating & supporting systemic change in response to complex challenges. Many networks/CoPs in health & care never get beyond stage one, when their potential is so much greater. sfu.ca/complex-systems-frame…. For deeper analysis of the principles: margaretwheatley.com/article…

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April self-care ideas!

A calendar with happiness challenges for the month of April!

This could easily be completed as an exit ticket.

Say What You See! This is an AI activity that gets students to practice writing image and art prompts. It was created by Experiments with Google. Students will learn the art of image prompting with the help of Google AI. There are different levels. experiments.withgoogle.com/s…

10 AI Project Ideas for Middle School Students veritasai.com/veritasaiblog/…

Some things can't be measured through testing 💜 Sketchnote via Sylvia Duckworth

Fun April Fool's Day idea! Serve Brown E's. Follow up with actual brownies later. You can also tie into lessons on the letter E, the silent E, spelling with E, words with E and so forth. taunieverett.com/april-fools…

Humans have always thrived not by resisting disruption, but by adapting to it. Disruption is accelerating at an incredible pace so we have to adapt faster than ever before. Some things remain the same: developing deeper foundational capabilities ("meta-skills") that help us adapt, learn & create value in any environment. Three meta-skills to thrive in the age of AI: 1) Lifelong learning driven by curiosity 2) Experimentation & continuous improvement 3) Collaboration with others linkedin.com/posts/tnvora_sk…. By @tnvora.

Mark the date for the @SimpleK12 Spring 5 Live Online Event, Wellness at the Heart of Teaching! Free on Sat., Apr. 5th! I'll be presenting, Teacher Zen: Ways to Prepare Yourself for Your Best Year Yet. Register now! hubs.ly/Q03bMfmf0 #sk12training

Building Classroom Habits and Procedures with AI Help! halorogers.com/blog/f/buildi… via @HaloRogers

Good AI activity for students to try to see how their descriptions are visualized by an AI image creation tool. Follow up by having students discuss with a partner how they can revise their sentences for better results and compare the outcomes.