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Ryan Duncan

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December 21, 2020 Looking Forward: Your New Year’s Teaching Resolutions

About this time every year, I make a New Year’s resolution. Correction – I make several New Year’s resolutions. To be honest, I was never…

December 18, 2020 Plan for the Rest: Time-Saving Tips for Lesson Planning

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” It’s a…

December 14, 2020 Happier Holidays: Empowering Your Students to Help Others

I’ve always loved the Holiday Season. The lights, the decorations, the music, and everything that comes with them. Sure, I can be a bit of…

December 11, 2020 Do What You Can: Helping Students Navigate the Bad Days

Have you ever read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? You probably have (after all, the book…

December 7, 2020 Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities

A few years ago, while observing an afterschool science cohort, I was introduced to a young boy I'll call Jake. From the beginning Jake wasn’t…

December 4, 2020 Tis the Season: Using the Holiday to Teach Students

It’s December, and I don’t know about you all, but I have been in desperate need of some holiday cheer. Given everything that’s happened in…

November 30, 2020 Learning Together: Helping Students Build Virtual Community

This past weekend, after nearly two weeks of intense quarantining, I was finally able to spend time with my family. Given the long period of…

November 23, 2020 Say What?: Teaching Media Literacy to Students

When I was a sophomore in high school, one of my teachers shared a rather disturbing article with our class. It was a report on…