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Jamie MacPherson

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January 15, 2020 Making the Most of Your Time

I am pretty convinced teachers are magicians. Somehow, teachers have this amazing ability to squeeze 80+ hours of work into a 40 hour…

January 3, 2020 Make it Matter! Assessment Strategies in PBL

There’s an old saying among authors, “Great works aren’t written, they’re rewritten”. It’s tempting to look at a completed novel and think the author wrote…

December 11, 2019 Kindness Matters

If you were asked to summarize what it means to be successful, what would you say? If you asked this same question to…

November 13, 2019 Five Reasons Why Teachers Should Give Twitter a Try

In today’s social media-driven world, it can be a huge time suck to sort out the good from the bad. With so many…

October 30, 2019 It’s Time to Take a Stand for Our Teachers

There are few professions out there that have greater significance than that of a teacher. Doctors, lawyers, grocery store clerks, inventors, politicians, bankers,…

October 3, 2019 The Need for Play

I am always astounded when I read how yet another school has decided to cut back on recess to make more time for core content…

September 19, 2019 The Road to Inquiry

Why can’t dogs talk? Why is the sky blue? How does an apple seed turn into a tree? Is anything real? 

September 4, 2019 Social and Emotional Learning: How to Foster These Skills in Your Classroom

How many of you are familiar with the term, “emotional intelligence”? To be honest, when I first heard about it, I thought emotional intelligence was…