Throughout the year I have volunteered in my daughter's class to teach character ed lessons. I...
Katie Martin
Are You Training People or Creating Opportunities for Learning?
I always cringe at the use of training when describing working with teachers and leaders. As many...
4 Necessary Conditions for Giving and Receiving Actionable Feedback
Last week we put on two back-to-back leadership institutes while I was transitioning to be the...
Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Teachers
Many administrators have leveraged resources to provide time in the school day for educators to...
A Systematic Approach to Personalized Professional Learning
Last week at ISTE there was noticeable attention paid to the fact that technology alone cannot...
It's not PBL that changed your classroom, it's you!
In education we like to name things and put them in nice packages. Vendors like this because they...
Creating a Culture of Innovation vs a Transformation
I was recently questioned on my use of transformation rather than innovation in respect to a...
It's Time to Move Beyond the Early Adopters
It hard to find a district or school that is not grappling with how to leverage existing...
Dr. Katie Martin
Dr. Katie Martin is the author of Learner-Centered Innovation and VP of Leadership and Learning at Altitude Learning. She teaches in the graduate school of Education at High Tech High and is on the board of Real World Scholars. Learn More.
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Developing the Confidence and Competence of Learners
We were on vacation recently and I was trying to estimate the dinner bill. I figured I would see...
6 Questions that Promote Learner Agency
I was talking with an educator who is deeply invested in his students and committed to promoting...
10 Ideas for Creating a Strengths-Based Culture
My husband, a 10th-grade teacher, told me recently that he decided to start the year by having...
Are We Killing the Confidence of Writers?
A 7th grader recently shared his experience in a blog post, Dear Report Cards, You Suck, that...