Essential Teaching and Learning

Honored that my latest article, “Six Suggestions to Spark a Spectacular School Year,” appears in the latest edition of The International Educator :  https://www.tieonline.com/article/3559/six-suggestions-to-spark-a-spectacular-school-year #education #educación #교육 #教育 #教育#empathy #resources #skills #strategies #innovation #innovación #혁신 #创新 #革新

(C) 2021 Scott Freiberger. Design by @KimARichardson.  By Scott B. Freiberger In the emotive, making-of-the-mammal Disney movie “Zootopia,” protagonist and officer extraordinaire Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) endures bad badgering, abundant bullying, and beastly berating while aspiring to become the city’s first crowned cottontail cop.   Yet despite uncivil circumstances and a series of exhausting encounters with furtive fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), she perennially persists, prods, and pushes on.   Ultimately, our flocculent, furry friend finds collaborators in questionable quarters and encounters rapport and responsiveness in virtuous vertebrate.   At its core, the moving movie is a celebration of inclusion and resolution, and teaches that appearances may not only be ambiguous, but also absolutely inaccurate.   The noble notion of employing empathy, kindling kindness, and trying tenderness to focus forward could also be acutely accentuated now in educati...

(C) 2007 Scott Freiberger By Scott B. Freiberger As we step outside and feel the proverbial autumn winds of change upon us, the lyrics to “Some Things Never Change” from Disney’s feel-good franchise hit “Frozen 2” reverberate: “Yes, the wind blows a little bit colder, and we’re all getting older, and the clouds are moving on with every autumn breeze...that’s why I rely on certain certainties.”   In spite of the pandemic, some things really do never change, like the need for providing all children a warm, welcoming, world-class education. As the new school year commences like a novel, unscripted movie, it seems we could all use some stress-reduction.   Take a deep breath as you prepare scholars for powerful new classroom experiences, and upgrade the new normal with substantial scholastic technology.   Here are five telltale tips for providing prodigious in-person learning. 1.       Soft-Serve a Superabundance of SEL I had penned about the i...