EduProtocols

EduProtocols are flexible instructional lesson frames that help students engage in deeper learning through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. They work with any subject and any grade level, from kindergarten through adult learners, and can be reused with different content once students understand the routine.

While there is a small learning curve at first, most EduProtocols follow a similar pattern, which makes them easier and easier to teach. After the first week or so, students quickly gain confidence with the protocols and are able to move more efficiently and independently through new content.

EduProtocols are not tool-specific, and they can be used with a wide variety of tools!

Here are a few of the more popular ones!:

Requires students to think creatively by designing a slide with only one word or image to explain their thinking.

Students are given five minutes to create their slide and one minute to speak on their slide.

Examples could be: Themes in literature, historical leaders, a math concept

Here is more on Thin Slides, including a bunch of templates and ideas for your class!

Students are given a 5 slide template, a title slide and 4 content slides, and usually around 10 minutes.

The teacher shares resources with students which they will use to create their presentation.

Students then work together in small groups to create their presentation and share it out with the class when they are done.

However, each student has their "special ingredient" to enable critical thinking. This is an image or GIF.

Here's more on Iron Chef including templates and ideas!

Run a Wayground (formerly Quizizz) with students as an introduction to a concept.

Run it again immediately after and watch the scores go up.

This cycle can happen multiple times in a week to help increase student retention and give immediate feedback to help guide instruction.

Here's more on Fast & Curious and how you can launch them this week!

Looking for ways to bring civic action and social justice into your classroom?

Explore The Learning Center from South Poverty Law Center's Learning for Justice.

This revamped hub offers a wealth of free resources, including film kits, podcasts, and "Liberation Lit" book reviews, designed to help educators and students counter bias and build a more inclusive democracy. Whether you are looking for lessons on the Civil Rights Movement or strategies for resisting hate in education, this is your go-to toolkit for social change.

Discover Curaturae, a free writing tool that pairs language with history. As students type their stories or poems, the app analyzes their text and displays a live collage of artwork from the Smithsonian Open Access collection. It is an incredible resource for creative writing, language learning, and visual storytelling, supporting ten different languages including Spanish, French, and Japanese. Since it requires no registration, your students can start exploring the intersection of art and text immediately.

Here's a quick 2 minute video overview of Curaturae!

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