At the Center, we are starting to grapple with a topic that is on many peoples’ minds right now… what is the role of AI in education? And how might AI be leveraged to support the preparation and development of our next generation of teachers, particularly their social, emotional, and...
At the Center, we have been welcoming in the joys of Spring with new projects and opportunities for broadening our reach and impact!
In our final Zoom session of our current Teacher Education Institute (TEI) with teacher education program faculty across Oregon, we focused on the Anchor Competency of Respond Constructively Across Differences. Often when we unpack and discuss this anchor, educators share that it feels like the hardest anchor to enact and/or...
At this moment, you might be finding yourself in a dust storm of uncertainty. Rapid changes are taking place across the landscape of education, impacting teaching, research, and the way we support educators and students. It is important that we take time (more than ever) to find clarity and to...
As we look back on 2024, we at the Center have so much to be grateful for and to feel a sense of accomplishment about. Much thanks to you, our incredible community! Here are a handful of our endeavors from the past year…
One of our Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC) colleagues recently shared that when she decided as a college undergrad to become a high school teacher, one of the first responses she often would hear from others is “Wow, you will have the summers off!”. There is...
Our Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC) May Newsletter opened with us sharing about the ‘why’ behind the creation of the CRTWC Anchor Competency Framework. Since our last newsletter, we had the incredible opportunity to enact our collective "why" through a 2-day ‘in-person’ Kick-Off Retreat with a group of teacher educators in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS).
In Chapter 1 of “Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens,” Nancy Markowitz and Suzanne Bouffard (2020) present the case for using a social, emotional and cultural lens in teaching. In this newsletter, we would like to take a moment to revisit the ‘beginnings’ of the Anchor Competencies Framework...
The Center for Teaching & Reaching the Whole Child presented our webinar on “RESPONDING CONSTRUCTIVELY ACROSS DIFFERENCES: TOOLS FOR NAVIGATING CHALLENGING CONVERSATIONS” at the end of March. We were thrilled and so appreciative of those of you who were able to attend from across the United States, Canada, and Europe!
