by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Classroom Management
We’ve come a long way from the little red schoolhouse. Just as we discovered that grouping children ages 5-18 in a single room didn’t lead to the most effective learning, we now know that tidy rows of desks are not the most conducive to absorbing knowledge and skills.... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Growth Mindset
Every teacher has a dream of encouraging lifelong learning in all their learners. They will not rest until their students shine. When you think of it, this seems like such a tall order but it really isn’t. It happens by osmosis when you demonstrate you are as... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
As a teacher, the most essential critical thinking tools you can have are the ones you’ve always got with you. Here at Wabisabi Learning, we both love critical thinking and creating awesome resources to make educator’s lives easier. So we’ve taken... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
Resilience describes a person’s capacity for overcoming adversity. If you’re an adult you probably already have plenty of practice in doing this. For parents and teachers, resilience is hard-won after years of falling down and getting back up again. Due to our own... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Making strong learning connections matters in all our teaching. It is among our highest priorities as educators, because without it we have no learning. Think about what happens when you yourself learn something successfully. Almost instantly, there is connection and... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | STEM
When it’s done well, project-based learning (PBL) honours your learner’s inherent gifts as vital to the success of the group. With that said, PBL also offers an avenue to those teachers wishing to give their students an awesome experience within STEM... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Leadership
Ed note: The following is an excerpt from our newest resource release about the power of restorative practices in schools. In schools around the world, a remarkable shift is happening. Where once the rule was to employ punitive measures to settle conflicts, we are now... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
Collaborative classrooms are the learning environments of the future. Schools around the world are saying goodbye to the conventional lecture-based learning space where the students remain inert in their respective seats and the teacher remains at the head of the... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Information Fluency
Developing deeper questioning skills often begins with the simple idea of admitting we don’t know something. However, this can be difficult in a classroom setting for a number of reasons. For one thing, our modern learners are often facing stringent outside... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Critical Thinking
Different methods can reach many students who appear to be failures, and that’s what engaging classroom teaching is all about. Take the teenagers in teacher Mark Thackeray’s class in London, who won’t stop misbehaving. His class is dominated by the students’...