The Learning Hub Blog

Every teacher has students who seem to disappear during the most important parts of a lesson. They look down when a question is asked, anxiously waiting for another student to answer. If called on, th...

 Most teachers want students to “take ownership” of their learning. It is one of those phrases that sounds right as soon as we say it. We want learners to set goals, use feedback, make good choices, a...

Why are we doing this?

The age-old question that is anything but music to the ears of a teacher. While this inquiry from students may become white noise in the classroom setting, it does unearth a po...

Most teachers know that students learn best when they feel safe, supported, and respected. But belonging and esteem ask us to go one step further.

A student may feel physically safe in a classroom an...

Teachers often recognize when the classroom environment is beginning to work against learning. It may not be dramatic. Students are not necessarily misbehaving in obvious ways. They are not refusing t...