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Complete this activity from The Co-Teacher's Playbook as a co-teaching team to take stock of your individual strengths and goals in order to better understand how you can better work together.

This foreword from The School in the Cloud, by education researcher John Hattie, discusses how, with Sugata Mitra's model of schooling in the cloud, we can use the technologies that are now available to conceive of a totally different type of schooling.

This foreword from The School in the Cloud, written by a class of seven-year-old students, serves as an example of what students can do in a self-organised learning environment (SOLE). 

Sugata Mitra, author of The School in the Cloud, discusses his 20 years of experiments with children's education observing the world as it comes to terms with an evolving Internet. From his “Hole in the Wall” experiment to “Self-Organized Learning Environments” (SOLEs) and finally the “School in the Cloud,” he shares thought-provoking experiences that show what happens when children meet the Internet.

Use this tool from The Novice Advantage by Jonathan Eckert to think through your PLN and how you can make it even better.eckert_the_novice_advantage_reflection_sheet.pdf

The project contract, introduced by Todd Stanley in Creating Life-Long Learners, is a handy reference for students throughout long-term projects.

 stanley_creating_life_long_learners.pdf

Excerpted from Thinking Through Project-Based Learning, this list of over 75 project ideas—complete with guiding questions and grade ranges—is a great resource for getting started. (K-12)

krauss_thinking_through_lesson_library.pdf

Using this Formative Tracking Sheet from Swanson and Ferguson’s Unleashing Student Superpowers, your students can self-assess their progress across any lesson. (K-12)

Use this Global Citizen Passport from Tavangar and Mladic-Morales’s The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners as an interactive keepsake for your next global activity. (Elementary)

Find the perfect book (among a list of 300+, all organized by subject area and grade level) to accompany a lesson on different cultures, compliments of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners. (Elementary)

In this episode of The Balance, Catlin Tucker, author of Balance With Blended Learning, talks with Tiffany Wycoff, and the issues related to the balance or, more accurately, the imbalance of power and responsibility in classrooms, the current role many students occupy as passive consumers, the need to model a growth mindset for our students, and more.

This project planner from Keep It Real With PBL, Secondary by Jennifer Pieratt gives you a place to organize your thoughts and start to make some connections.