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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 4h

Excited to be presenting at #itecia in a couple of weeks on #PBL and #Creativity.

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 5h

Creative lesson plans to inspire your first-grade learners
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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 8h

Celebrating #NationaBookMonth? Have students demonstrate comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict by designing a new book cover. #lessonplan

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 1d

Showcase student work to a real world audience for authentic #PBL work during #NationalBookMonth

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 1d

Turn your emerging readers into writers!

15+ printable adaptations with sentence stems for titles like:

📗 Snowmen at Night
📘 There's a Wocket in my Pocket
📙 Ten Black Dots

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 1d

50 classroom activities for 5th grade
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#EduSky

Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 2d

Use choice boards to engage students in reading and let them become makers and creators and they demonstrate their comprehension of a story. #NationalBookMonth #literacy

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 2d

If you're ready to transform your classrooms with a PBL approach, Tech4Learning can help. With over 25 years of experience training teachers, let us help you get started.

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 3d

Effective leaders in 21st century schools consider instructional requirements, the expertise of teachers, and the ultimate needs of students.

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 3d

How to be a food waste warrior. Such a powerful #PBL project! Perfect for giving students voice, agency, and responsibility through authentic work.

#EduSky

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Be A Food Waste Warrior

K-12 lessons, activities, and resources to teach the planetary impact of what we eat and what we throw away.

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 3d

Creative Educator has developed a unique professional development model that helps teachers get started transforming their classrooms to #projectbasedlearning environments.

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 3d

So excited to learn and share at VIBE Shift! Thanks to @eduprotocols.bsky.social for organizing this event.

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Nathan Lang-Raad, Ed.D @drlangraad.bsky.social · 4d

The 4A's text protocol for the AI age. #edusky

Assumption: What's one assumption the AI made?

Agreement: What did AI get right? How do you know?

Argument: What's wrong or missing? What expertise did you need to catch this?

Aspiration: How would you revise the AI response to be accurate?

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 4d

This collection is such an amazing math resource! See them all at: www.visualpatterns.org

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 4d

With endless gratitude on #WorldTeachersDay and everyday! Thank you so very much for all your hard work, dedication, and creativity.

Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 5d

Have students create a trailer for your favorite book to get others to read it during #NationalBookMonth #lessonplan

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 5d

Excited to be presenting at #itecia in a couple of weeks on #PBL and #Creativity.

www.thecreativeeducator.com/

Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 5d

In today's world, creativity is an essential skill. Here are some ideas to help you nurture and grow creative capacity in yourself and your students.

www.thecreativeeducator.com/creativity

Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 6d

Investigate the potential of a book's characters, plot and themes and develop a proposal for turning it into a series. Here's how:

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 7d

Have your students write their own literature adaptations to combine your celebrations of #NationalBookMonth - Ideas and samples here:

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 7d

Great article from @tannenbaumtech.bsky.social tech.bsky.social. If you don't use thinking routines yet, she shares so many great ideas for them in this @edutopia.org article.

www.edutopia.org/article/tech...

#EDUsky

Using Tech Tools to Amplify Classroom Thinking Routines

Integrating digital tools empowers students with choice, while making thinking increasingly visible and collaborative—creating a more accessible and dynamic classroom culture.

www.edutopia.org

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 7d

Need a printable organizer to support project work? The Graphic Organizer Maker even lets you customize - simply choose from a range of types, add instructions, and print!

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 8d

Use informational texts for #NationalBookMonth celebrations with these unique and creative tasks that get students thinking! #literacy #creativity

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 9d

It's #NationalBookMonth! Encourage active thinking by giving your readers creative performance tasks to build comprehension & go beyond recall.

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 9d

50 classroom activities for 2nd grade
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50 Activities for 2nd Grade

Hands-on ideas to engage students in meeting standards and learning goals.

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