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Our Students Will Thrive If We #OverEstimateKids (The Sequel – One Year Later)

In 2020 Jeremy VanEgmond began promoting a cause close to his heart – the need to “overestimate” what kids can do by encouraging them to pursue their passionate interests and make a difference in the world. The Pike Road Elementary assistant principal, who first wrote about his #OverestimateKids campaign for us last year, follows up with specific actions educators and parents can take to help create “shining moments where kids make connections we never gave them a chance to make before.”

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The School Teams of PCN West: Teaching the Whole Child in a Time of Great Challenge

In the COVID-19 pandemic era, paying attention to the whole child – including children’s social-emotional learning needs – has never been more urgent. Dr. Holly Morgan shares some of the work school teams in the PCN West professional learning network are doing to assure a school culture of safety, support and self-reliance that will help every child not only fly but soar.

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Jennifer Hutchison: Ideas We Can Use to Strengthen “Engagement in the Ether”

Educators pride ourselves on making daily connections with our students, writes Jennifer Hutchison. When we found ourselves in virtual spaces, “our driving question became, how do I connect with a tiny green dot, with students who have their cameras turned off and who may or may not be sitting in the same room with their computer?” Hutchison, a veteran science teacher and PD specialist for Hudson-Alpha, shares some discoveries she made about effective engagement “in the ether.”

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Lift Every Voice: Deepening the Teaching of Black History All Year Long

“As an African American educator,” writes Dieatra Howie, A+ College Ready’s Social Studies Content Director, “I am proud of the rich heritage that we possess, and I encourage educators to embrace the opportunity afforded to them to make a difference in the lives of their students. The lessons that are taught this month and beyond can change the trajectory of an individual student’s life.” 

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Three Hurdles Students Must Clear to Maximize Self-Assessment

When students incorporate self-assessment strategies into their study habits they learn more, retain more and have more success recalling and applying new knowledge. But there are three hurdles students must overcome first, writes James Clemens High School AP Psychology teacher Blake Harvard, and it’s up to teachers to convince them the high jumping is worth their time and effort.

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Assistant Principal: One Aha and Two Truths I’ve Learned about School Leadership

For the past several years Enterprise City AP DeAnna Miller has been on a leadership journey. “I’ve read countless books about leadership, scoured online reading material, watched videos, joined Facebook groups and Twitter chats, all with one goal in mind – to be a ‘good’ leader.” During her journey, Miller has discovered “one profound a-ha and two recurring truths” which she believes will help her be both a lead learner and a lead teacher.

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Dreamcatchers: Blount County’s Safe, Happy and Successful Summer Learning Camp

Dreamcatchers 2020, a summer learning program supported by the Blount County Education Foundation, was an amazing experience, writes BCEF Executive Director Mitchie Neel. “In this our fifth year, new challenges and obstacles arose due to the coronavirus pandemic.  Amazingly, those challenges did not prevent the experience from being impactful on our students.  Let me tell you why.”

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In Today’s Digital World Educators Need to #OverEstimateKids

The worst thing we can do for students today, writes Pike Road Elementary assistant principal Jeremy VanEgmond, is to underestimate their ability to thrive in a digitally empowered world and make a positive difference in the challenging future they will live in. He believes educators must #OverEstimateKids and adapt teaching and learning now to meet our current realities.

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