30+ resources to help you rethink your learning space (and counting)

Recharging your batteries over the summer is a good time to being to rethink your classroom design for next year (or to finally catch up on Netflix).  To help you prioritize and innovate, here are 30+ resources to get you started (follow the Flipboard to get all the updates as they come): View my Flipboard…

Development week: Round up

Interested in what else was happening during Development Week? Middle leaders spent 90 minutes exploring portfolios.   We imagined what our portfolios could be four years from now. As a provocation, we listened to one current university student reflect on her High School blogging experience: This student has continued to use a portfolio as a…

Recapping The Learning Spaces Book Club Meeting 1

Our first three texts Getting spaced out: We started this journey by hosting consultant Maija Ruokanen (revisit her teachings in this episode of podcast UWCLearn). The DLCs then fanned those fuels as our in house #uwclearn spacebusters. Most recently a cohort of teachers across the college met last Friday to talk about our very first read…

Introducing the Spacebusters

Looking to revamp your learning space? If you’ve been following our Flipboard of resources, or you are just curious about having a fresh look at your classroom, this post is for you. Classroom redesign is not something you need to ‘go alone.’ What if we saw your space as an opportunity to learn together? “Teamwork”…

Digital Bytes – 16 November 2015

How to Provide kids Screen Time that Supports Learning Kids are now spending more time on devices like iPads than watching television. “Children not only need to learn how to decode the letters and words they read, but also to gain an understanding of what goes into creating information and stories of all kinds.” This…