Empowering Gen Z... Leading and Learning in the 21st Century

  What does it mean to learn?  What does it mean to be a learner in our classrooms?  A 21st-century classroom...... This podcast really spoke to me.  It's an interview with John Hattie.  Please listen to the first 20 minutes.  The Learning Scientist Podcast: An Interview with John Hattie ( click on title) At Empower, we focus on student production........, And a lot of thoughts in the podcast have been around for a while... BUT .... Have these concepts TRULY been implemented?  What does this look like in our virtual setting?  What is one thing you could change tomorrow to move students from knowledge consumers to knowledge producers?  Just one:) Write your one change below. Rebecca Minerd

 What exactly is a sight word anyway?  Don't we teach those in primary grades and then don't visit them anymore?   Well..... not exactly. Dr. Linnea Ehri defines sight words as: "All words that are sufficiently practiced, not just high-frequency words or irregularly spelled words become sight words when read from memory." That means the words" sit" and "situational" are both sight words when you can automatically recognize them.  Is there a process to learn words?  Actually, there is a systematic approach to teaching new words.  It involves the science of  Orthographic Mapping.   - click here Read Dr. Linnea Ehri's instructional guide for a better explanation.   Click here -  Dr. Linnea Ehri's List of Instructional Guidelines for Enhancing Orthographic Mapping and word Learning What do you think about the six-step process?  How can it be implemented at your GL?  Rebecca Minerd and Elizabeth Treadwell