May
23

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ May 23

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“Learners can deepen their understanding of the evaluation criteria and improve their critical thinking and evaluation skills by analysing and evaluating their peers’ work. As the evaluated, learners can identify shortcomings through the feedback provided by their peers and adjust their learning strategies, thus developing their metacognitive skills” (Li & Wang, 2025; Tan and Chen, 2022)

Image by Cameron Conaway, 2023. https://cameronconaway.com/feedback-literacy-learning-culture/

References

Conaway, C. (2023). To Improve Your Learning Culture, Promote Employee Feedback Literacy. https://cameronconaway.com/feedback-literacy-learning-culture/

Li, L., & Wang, C. (2025). A dual-cycle peer evaluation model to enhance student feedback literacy: a three-round empirical educational study. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2487488

Tan, J. S. H., and W. Chen. 2022. “Peer Feedback to Support Collaborative Knowledge Improvement: What Kind of Feedback Feed-Forward?” Computers & Education 187: 104467. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2022.104467.

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Nov
8

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ November 8

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“Freedom is the sure possession for those alone who have the courage to defend it.” ~Percales

photo by Helen Teague

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Nov
24

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ November 24

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“Gratitude is Your Leadership Candle… Gratitude, like a candle, loses nothing of itself when shared with another, but brightens the whole environment. When a leader (proverbially) lights a candle for someone in their care, they model behavior that has a reverberating positive influence on the culture of the entire organization.” ~ Sean Schofield, Ph.D.

Thank you for your support, reading, commenting, and sharing throughout this year and always.

~Your 10-Rep Learning Team

References
Schofield, S. (2023). Leadership Challenge #14: Learning the importance and value of giving. LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-challenge-14-learning-importance-value-schofield-ph-d–p0tqe/

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Aug
25

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ August 25

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“The path to differentiation begins with intensely understanding your target audience.” ~Saythi V., as seen on LinkedIn

Differentiation strategies have a positive effect when frequently used and combined with teacher structure and students’ motivation (Guay, et al., 2017).

References

Guay, F., Roy, A., & Valois, P. (2017). Teacher structure as a predictor of students’ perceived competence and autonomous motivation: The moderating role of differentiated instruction. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87(2), 224–240. https://doi-org.vproxy.cune.edu/10.1111/bjep.12146

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Jul
28

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ July 28

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“In our eagerness tohonor [Blackinnovators], too often we privilege their inventions over their humanity. Imagine how much more we might gain from knowing them as fully realized individuals, not just as the sum of their inventions.” ~ Ezelle Sanford, 2020.

References

Sanford, E. (2020, February). The unappreciated legacy of African American inventors. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-unappreciated-legacy-of-african-american-inventors.

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Jul
21

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ July 21

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“Productive struggle is what I call the “sweet spot” in between scaffolding and support. Rather than immediately helping students at the first sign of trouble, we should allow them to work through struggles independently before we offer assistance. That may sound counterintuitive, since many of us assume that helping students learn means protecting them from negative feelings of frustration. But for students to become independent learners, they must learn to persist in the face of challenge.” ~Barbara Blackburn

Wondering… Considering the variety of options for differentiation…Is productive struggle a type of differentiation?

References

Blackburn, B. R. (2018). Productive struggle is a learner’s sweet spot. ASCD Express, 14(11).

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Jun
2

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ June 2

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“Action research is defined as any systematic inquirey conducted by teachers, administrators, counselors, or others, with a vested interest in the teaching and learning process or environment for the purpose of gathering information about how their particular schools operate, how they teach, and how their students learn (Mills, 2011). More important, action research is characterized as research that is done by teachers for temselves. It is trualy a systematic inquiry into one’s own practice (Johnson, 2008). Action reseaarc allows teachers to study their own classrooms ~ for example, their own instructional methods, their own students, and their own assessments 0 in order to better understand them and to be able to improve their quality or effectiveness. It focuses specifically on the unique characteristics of the population with whom a practice is employed or with whom some action must be taken. This, in turn results in increased utility and effectiveness for the practioner (Parsons & Brown, 2002).” ~Craig Mertler, 2009, p. 4.

Image Source: Sonya Terborg- https://sonyaterborg.com/2016/02/17/action-research/

References

Mertler, C. A. (2009). Action research: Teachers as researchers in the classroom. Sage.
https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/58378_Chaper_1.pdf

Terborg, S. (2016). Action Research. Sonya Terborg blog. https://sonyaterborg.com/2016/02/17/action-research/

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May
19

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ May 19

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“When taught well, the arts develop cognitive competencies that benefit learners in every aspect of their education and prepare them for the demands of the 21st century.” ~Sousa & Plecki, 2018

References

Sousa, D. A. & Plecki, T. (2013). From STEM to STEAM: Using brain-compatible strategies to integrate the arts. Corwin.

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Apr
28

By Dr. Helen Teague

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ April 28

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“One of the good things in tennis is that you get a new opportunity to prove your worth every week and take a step forward. I’ve turned over a new leaf.” ~Novak Djokovic, Serbian professional tennis player currently ranked the world No. 1 player in men’s singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Djokovic has held the top position for a record total 384 weeks.