Making a Maker Culture While Distance Learning
Maker education is a way of teaching and learning that focuses on giving students hands-on experiences to foster critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, perseverance, and many other [...]
Kia Heise and Chris Park: Author & Illustrator Q&A
In Kia Heise and Christopher D. Park’s debut children’s book Little Sock, the reader learns the whimsical answer to a common household problem, where do lost socks go? Sock City of course! [...]
Pair Up: Partnering Fiction and Nonfiction in Classroom Libraries
by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist at Mackin Classrooms are filled with a variety of learners and therefore classrooms should be filled with a variety [...]
Social Emotional Learning: Mental Health Awareness Month #4Mind4Body
May is national Mental Health Awareness Month and subsequently Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is making a revival in educational trends. Kristen Fuller, M.D. with Psychology Today highlights [...]
A Blend of Social Media and Teaching
Written in partial fulfillment of graduate work completed at Dominican University. When we think of social media, we think of resources such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, GroupMe, [...]
How Digital Books Can Enhance Classroom Libraries
by Jennifer McCarty Plucker, Ed.D., Director of Professional Learning at Mackin and Deidra Purvis, Lead Classroom Specialist at Mackin Teachers need books, lots of books. Many teachers understand [...]
Four Reasons to Tackle Flexible Learning Spaces
Since this past January, I’ve been the Elementary Principal of T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School (TBD) in the Old Tappan School District. And, as I’ve previously detailed in my blog post – [...]
Teaching Beliefs to Drive Literacy Instruction
In the early stages of my undergraduate teaching program, I was asked the question, “What are your beliefs about teaching and learning?”. I eagerly answered this question stating that I would be [...]
