by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment
How do we measure learners’ understanding? What sets the master teacher apart from the amateur? The masters have perfected assessment for understanding, rather than simply knowledge. However, in their oft-quoted book Understanding by Design, Grant Wiggins and... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Social Media
Learning with Twitter is something modern teachers are seeing more and more possibilities for. Initially, the question years ago was about whether or not Twitter would perform consistently as a classroom tool. Would it allow social media to take on a life of its own,... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Global Digital Citizen
The roles and responsibilities of the global digital citizen are many and diverse, but what about someone a little closer to the classroom home? Say hello to an educator for modern times and innovative teaching and learning, the global digital teacher. Teachers... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Achieving transformational learning begins the way all other learning does—with a question. When I’m working with schools around the globe, I’m always interested in the types of questions we ask our students in order to make their learning relevant,... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
The personal qualities we carry with us beyond school don’t simply define what we’ve learned. They also show people who we are because of who we’ve chosen to be. So the right choices are critical to success in every part of life. These kinds of... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Social Media
Twitter can be a teacher’s best friend for a number of different reasons, not the least of which is being a tool for solid professional development. That’s why having a reference list of useful education hashtags is a good thing to keep around. This one... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Professional Learning
Teachers love reading, as any great leader and innovator does. If you’re looking for some professional development books for teachers covering a range of different education subjects, these are the best 60 out there right now. We’ve compiled this giant list by... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Future-Focused Learning
People often ask me what future-focused learning really means. It’s a simple and simultaneously complex question to answer which is why we wrote a book on the subject. Ultimately, though it may mean different things to different people, the truth is that the... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
All over the world, a. miraculous shift is happening in education, a shift from content to process. To make this easily approachable, we considered what kinds of activities any teacher could familiarize themselves with quickly in order to engage in this shift... ![How to Tell If You Have a Fixed or a Growth Mindset [Infographic]](https://d2wldp4wpenmih.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/critical-brain-motion-bulb-1080x675.jpg)
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Teaching
A growth mindset is a way of thinking we strive to gift all of our learners with in education. When we live with a growth mindset, we see possibilities instead of limitations. Our failures become valuable experiences for learning. Success enjoyed by others inspires...