12+ Missions Covering Various K12 Content for Meaningful Learning

Technology is a huge part of our students’ lives. Students all over the world have access to knowledge, resources, and experts to help them learn in rich ways and accomplish great things. The Internet and social media provide learners with a worldwide audience in which to share their ideas, passions, innovations, thoughts, and brilliance. The […]

Making Learning Meaningful with Badges and Missions

Today, we hosted the first Twitter chat of The Goal-Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning (#EduGoalsMOOC) free open online course with guest experts Dr. Will Deyamport (@IamDrWill) and Noah Geisel (@SenorG). Below is the archive of the Twitter chat with our participants and experts sharing tips and resources about student motivation with digital badges and […]

Tips for Teacher Motivation, Goal-Setting, and PLNs!

Today, the first live event of The Goal-Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning (#EduGoalsMOOC) free open online course took place. Below is the YouTube recording and the Twitter chat of our panelists sharing tips about teacher motivation, balance, and goal-setting. Our esteemed panelists who are educators in the US, Greece, and Portugal, include Lisa Dabbs (@TeachWithSoul), Theodora […]

Goal: Explore a Past Reflection

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful! “Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.” – Yvonne Woon Goal: Explore past reflections and reflect on what they reveal about your growth, ideologies, and beliefs about teaching and learning. Accomplish this goal: Look at past blog posts, journal entries, […]

Goal: Why I Teach

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful! If your actions in the classroom inspire children to achieve more, question more, and dream more, you are indeed worthy of the title “Teacher.” – Robert John Meehan Goal: Share with a community of teachers why you teach. Accomplish this goal: We are revisiting this goal […]