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Teaching about the weather can be a little overwhelming, for students and teachers. There are several interconnected concepts that...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Oct 2, 2021
- 4 min
What does Real Professional Development Look Like During a Pandemic?
Teaching in the last year has been like riding out a hurricane in a treehouse. As seasoned educators, we tried to come prepared. We knew...
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rosjackson
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
Direct Instruction Through Mini-Lessons
The end of a project has come, and your students are ready to present. How do you feel about class periods of students standing at the...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Sep 25, 2021
- 5 min
Benefits of Kanban in the Classroom
The year begins with a bang. Students shuffling in with crumbs of summer still in their eyes are staring down the project to end all...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Sep 18, 2021
- 4 min
What Makes a Classroom Agile?
Throughout the summer I have answered this question from educators all over the world. While I do not have a definitive answer there are...
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rosjackson
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
The Importance of Asking Questions: And Some Examples for How To Do It
My partner Jessica Cavallaro posted on Linked In last week about the importance of teaching students how to ask questions through the...
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rosjackson
- Aug 14, 2021
- 2 min
Do You Have Obstacles To Student Collaboration In Your Classroom?
As teachers, we want our students to collaborate. We want them to communicate. A lot of us like them working in groups. But, we also...
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rosjackson
- Jul 6, 2021
- 1 min
Removing Roadblocks to Learning in my Classroom
This summer we were given the incredible opportunity to write for Intrepid ED News about our agile journey in education. Bi-weekly...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Jul 3, 2021
- 4 min
Student Created Rubrics
Students worked for over 5 weeks to become experts in their historical fields. They self-selected groups from all different course...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Jun 19, 2021
- 5 min
Design Thinking in Humanities
The 8th-grade students are tasked with creating an American History museum that will cover 1800 – 1945. The idea is overwhelming at...
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rosjackson
- Jun 18, 2021
- 1 min
Summer Reading for A Newbie Agile Teacher
If you have seen any of my posts recently, you know I am amazed by how using Agile skills in my classroom helped my kids grow so much in...
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rosjackson
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
What’s on my wall
This is not in my classroom. This is at my home. When I say that Agile methodologies have changed my life, I mean it. It is transforming...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Goal Setting and Improvement Kata
Goal setting, creating strategies & managing workflow is a skill that we all need regardless of our careers or life phase. Yet, how many...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Jun 12, 2021
- 6 min
Kanban in the Classroom
When I first introduced EduScrum into the classroom students created FLAPs out of the materials available. In class, students worked with...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- Jun 9, 2021
- 2 min
Skills for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is ‘characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital,...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- May 29, 2021
- 6 min
Scaffolding an Agile Learning Experience
150 years of content in five weeks? Yeah, no problem. The students were in charge. In a lightning-speed brainstorm with the founder of...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- May 22, 2021
- 7 min
Bringing an Agile Mindset to the Classroom
How Agile Coaching Brings Better Results When I began my journey with L-EAF.org, I was staring down the end of the school year. Usually,...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- May 15, 2021
- 9 min
12 Agile Principles in Education
Bringing Agile to education means developing and driving your course with intention. Lessons are not copied from internet sources, or...
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Jessica Cavallaro
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
Bringing Agility into the Classroom with L-EAF.org
In January 2021 I was plugging along. My students were using EduScrum quite seamlessly. Our Constitution unit had just launched and I was...
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