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Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Kim Essenburg’s Learn, Unlearn, & Relearn blog on October 10, 2020. A fun reading...

I always used textbooks in my classes … but never how they were intended. They were valuable for me, as the teacher, to identify the...

The classroom is charged with the energy of learning – students collaboratively working with text to build meaning. These are the teacher...

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on April 14, 2020. Whether teaching on-line or face-to-face, RAFTs is an engaging...

Exploring deeper learning through the study of ‘labels’ in a first grade classroom. Deeper Learning is not an exotic new curricular...

You are fearfully and wonderfully made…for His purposes. This simple affirmation statement started as a daily prayer over my three sons...

The dualistic mind, upon which most of us were taught to rely, is simply incapable of the task of creating unity. It automatically...

Editor’s note: This is the first part of Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Stay tuned for the rest of the series: “What I Learned...

I love a good vision statement, but on many days they’re no help. I’m lucky enough to teach at a terrific Christian school, and I care a...

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on March 8, 2016. I’ve been working in the past several years with schools that...

This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on October 2, 2019. I’ve worked with many teachers designing deeper...

This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on January 29, 2022. Fiction offers us a powerful marriage of information...

This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on October 3, 2020. You need to be brave to try something you’re afraid of....

This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on September 19, 2020. The silence in a room full of reading students is...

A version of this article was previously published on the CACE Blog on February 27, 2018. “It is nothing but a pious wish and a grossly...

The contents of this article build on the excellent work of EL Education’s Dimensions of Student Achievement and were first published by...

A version of this article was originally published in the CACE Blog on November 29, 2018. The universe is made of stories, not atoms....

For fourteen years I taught AP Micro and Macroeconomics at Minnehaha Academy, and believe me when I tell you that I love ideas. The...

This article was originally posted on Kim Essenburg’s blog on February 2, 2018. Over the years, I’ve stumbled upon exercises that really...