by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
The way to transform teaching is more than just through shifting practice. Lets look at it through 7 different truths that help welcome the change. If you’re a teacher who wants to transform teaching now and for years to come, you’re not alone.... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
Take your essential questions to new heights with the Essential Questions Teacher’s Companion. In any great lesson, an essential question is what drives the quest for knowledge and discovery of the unknown and also encourages learning ownership. So what makes a... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
You already know about the skills every student needs and why. What about teachers, though? We wouldn’t be anywhere without them and their expertise. And today, modern teacher skills are a broad area of consideration. For example, think of the daily tasks that... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of our original article with 2 new quotes included. Inspiring teachers guarantees having inspired classrooms and students. Inspiration is at the heart of creativity and accomplishment. It is responsible for making... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
Before I discovered Solution Fluency lesson planning, I had a tenuous relationship with lesson plans. I would get hung up on the format, the wording, the components, referencing the Standards, and worrying if the lesson would work. The process of planning took away... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
Let’s put some focus on strong teaching misconceptions. We know the world is full of great teachers. Making generalizations, assumptions, or misconceptions about teaching would be fruitless. So let’s focus on the profession itself and its changing... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
As Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer … than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” In other words, people are resistant to change. The Common Core... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Teaching
“Meet George Jetson!” My childhood Saturday mornings were spent imagining what the world would be like many years from then. Cities in the sky, automated rituals, robots working for us—it was the stuff of wonder. Countless humans have tried to predict what the future... 
