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Written By Bonnie Kulenkamp M.Ed Blog

The Importance of Relational Teaching in SEL

When asked to reflect on your favorite teachers during your school-career, you may be more inclined to remember teachers who spent time getting to know you than teachers who strictly taught content.

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Tinkercad
Written By Julia Crone Blog

Using Tinkercad for DIGITAL Prototypes or End Products in PBL or Design Thinking

Indiana teachers work tirelessly to spark students’ imagination and empower them as learners, all while wearing the weight of a 1,000 hats. However, many of our projects and activities that worked pre-COVID are a no-go now due to social distancing, students being fully virtual, or having an endless combination of in-person, remote, and quarantined students.

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Written By Chevin Stone M.Ed Blog

Summertime, Funtime… STEM Learning Time!

Ahhh, the sweet, sweet indicators that summer will soon be here: robins and cardinals flitting about singing happily, the grass growing and trees budding. Bees buzzing and weather warming. Students lose focus and smile as they stare out the classroom windows.

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Social and Emotional learning foundation - CASEL
Written By Bonnie Kulenkamp M.Ed Blog

Beyond Soft Skills: 5 Components of Social Emotional Learning

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has become a new focus in many public school districts across the country. Once dubbed “soft skills,” school leaders are becoming more aware of the importance of SEL within the framework of both school culture and school curriculum.

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Written By Kristin Hunter-Thomson Blog

3-2-1-Go! Making Data Accessible & Easier to Teach

There is an explosion of data and graphs all around us—on the news, in our social media feeds, on our phones, etc. And it is becoming increasingly clear that our students need to build their data skills to succeed in the 21st century (be it at a future job or paying their electricity bills).

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Written By Tina Banks Blog

Global Connections: Before, During and After

You have the perfect lesson for a global connection. You have reached out and found an opportunity that would enrich your students’ depth of knowledge. You want to do things correctly and feel overwhelmed with this new process.

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Written By Tim Wilhelmus Blog

13 Things I Think I Know About Digital Citizenship

A recent conversation I had regarding digital citizenship for the first episode of our Keep Indiana Learning Home Grown podcast got me thinking. In my more than 10 years working in the EdTech world, I’ve had plenty of time to consider what digital citizenship means, and how it impacts our work as educators in a digital world.

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