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Summer Session Registration is Now Open!

Our Curriculum and Instruction Team has put together nine new and exciting courses just for you! Click on the courses below to learn what we have to offer, or to register now.

Slam Dunk Ideas!

This blog post was originally published on March 18, 2016, but it was so well received that we wanted to freshen it up and share it again. Enjoy!

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! March Madness will soon be underway, but rather than fight your student’s interest in the NCAA basketball tournament, incorporate it into your lessons! We’ve put together 5 of our favorite resources for integrating the NCAA tournament into your math, science, reading or social studies period.  Go ahead and try one out.  It might just be a slam dunk!! 

Get up-to-date Tech Tools for 2019

It’s 2019, and technology continues to reshape teaching trends in and out of the classroom. One of the most challenging obstacles for teachers is knowing what’s new, what’s coming, and how this technology can be used to infuse new tactics to engage, educate and learn. This year, the trends are about building the “Intelligent Digital Mesh” which encompasses:

• Intelligence – AI drives everything we do across many systems going into the future;
• Digital – The digital world brings the virtual and real worlds together in a new digital reality; and,
• Mesh – Connecting people, processes, and things together in new and interesting ways.

We are Moving!

Learners Edge recently hosted our first blended learning course on Mindfulness. It was a fantastic experience for us as a Learners Edge team - we were inspired and enlightened by the abundance of wonderful conversation from our teacher students from around the country. 

Our course instructor, Lance Raabe shared with us the value of creating a Teaching Mantra.  A teaching mantra is a simple way for teachers to bring mindfulness to teaching. By committing to a short, consistent phrase, and sharing it with your students, this mindful act can help on days when the classroom feels a bit off kilter. Lance's teaching mantra is: "Best Day of My Life...Until Tomorrow!"

Many of our course participants shared their Teaching Mantras and we wanted to pass along a little of their brilliance. Read on, perhaps one of these mantras will resonate with you! 

 Summer is a wonderfully lazy time, and we hope you are all resting and refreshing! The Curriculum and Instruction team here at Learners Edge loves summer because it means that once again, we get to introduce a whole new slate of courses especially for you! These courses will be ready and available for registration beginning on July 16th - opening for Fall 2018 or Spring 2019 session registrations. It's like Christmas in July!

Take a look at the courses that we've been putting the finishing touches on and make sure to sign-up at the bottom of this article to receive a reminder when these courses are open and available for registration! 

Happy (almost) Spring!! 

As we make our way out of the shadows, blinking into the sunlight this March, we have some exciting news to share with you! 

The Curriculum and Instruction team gave our course categories an overhaul! We dug in to really assess how we could make sure they represented the topics important to education professionals. As a result, we have added 6 new content topic areas and have also restructured a few of our existing course categories to better meet your needs. We have also provided definitions for each of the categories to help you target the course topics you are seeking. Take a look!