Seattle native, former Principal/Head, education enthusiast and consultant, loved living long-term in NL, now supporting schools back home.
Joined November 2015
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We believe that every student should be engaged in cognitively-demanding tasks and learner-centered, talk-based instruction.
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"Scaffolding is what educators do first to support student success."
Sketchnote via @woodard_julie
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I like how ‘in the moment’ a document camera can be in support of students sharing or teacher modeling.
In Praise of the Humble Document Camera edutopia.org/article/effecti…
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Lara Lyons retweeted
30 Sep 2024
Mini-Whiteboards: Most impressive advance in educational technology -slate boards for the 21st century! Ty @dylanwiliam @adamboxer1 for snapping us back to reality. Go for it @nsachdeva2019 and @MrZachG Over to @researchEDCan #cdned #rEDCan #MWBs
29 Sep 2024
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a strong advocate of mini-whiteboards (MWBs). Brief thread explaining the WHENWHYBY: when are they useful, why are they useful and how do you make them useful:
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Lara Lyons retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Design Principles for high quality learning experiences and 8 recommendations for expanding access gettingsmart.com/2024/09/24/… via @Getting_Smart
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28 Sep 2024
Loved seeing these goals shared by students at our children’s school. Learning by taking risks & knowing students by name. Great understanding of what it means to belong & authentically learn.
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Lara Lyons retweeted
12 Sep 2024
@natwexler explores why kids struggle to learn to read beyond third grade.
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/natali…
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14 Sep 2024
Great way to provide a break during professional development days: have a teacher-led ‘guac challenge’ team-building! Builds community and is a tasty snack!
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19 Aug 2024
Kindness in schools is a true cornerstone that has an amazing impact. So important to foster and nurture this.
19 Aug 2024
"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
From Marcus Aurelius to Tolstoy to Einstein, two millennia of wisdom on the nuances, challenges, and rippling rewards of kindness themarginalian.org/2023/03/1…
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Lara Lyons retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Small study indicates that using metacognitive strategies (long known to boost comprehension) reduces mind-wandering in college students. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202…
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21 Jul 2024
Believing all students can achieve at high levels and supporting them to do so is critical.
@EvidenceInEdu
21 Jul 2024
The relationship between high teacher expectations and student attainment has been a mainstay of educational effectiveness research since it began.
Creating a climate of high expectations is the 4th element of dimension 2 (creating a supportive environment).
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21 Jul 2024
Interesting to consider.
20 Jul 2024
Researchers at MIT have questioned whether SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) actually work. They suggest we might get better outcomes if we make our goals FAST (frequently discussed, ambitious, specific and transparent) not SMART.
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10 Jul 2024
Thoughtful questions by @tguskey to begin developing greater consistency within assessment practices.
26 Jun 2024
I'm delighted to learn that this article was one of Kappan's Top Articles of 2023-24!
kappanonline.org/addressing-…
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Lara Lyons retweeted
5 Jul 2024
Leadership , a document written by @JamesTCobbler and brilliantly he is now a Minister of HM government dept of justice. Grown ups doing grown up jobs , remember that ?
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Lara Lyons retweeted
How do you improve education at scale? Here are six tips to help create a roadmap for the messy, challenging, and hard work of using data to make positive change across all layers of the school system.
gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable…
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