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Students help Plan a Unit: How Real-World Skills Can Help Engage and Motivate Students

June 27, 2025 / Authentic Task, Developing Skills, Inquiry-Based Learning, Planning, Real World Learning

Let’s be honest—handing over any part of unit planning to students sounds like a fast track to chaos. It sounds like one of those lofty, Pinterest-worthy goals that real teachers with real time laugh nervously at during staff meetings…That being said, I would like to share with you why having students help plan a unit […]

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Teaching Business to Kids: Unit Plans

June 11, 2025 / Authentic Task, Developing Skills, Experts, GRASPS, Inquiry-Based Learning, Planning, Provocation, Real World Learning

The Dizziness of Teaching Business Let’s be honest—teaching business to kids sounds intimidating. Like, am I suddenly supposed to have gotten an MBA alongside my teaching degree and be prepared to give a lesson on quarterly earnings. This was the anxiety I faced the first time I had to teach a business unit to 5th

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Teacher grasping a coffee mug while planning an authentic task on a laptop, illustrating the GRASPS model for authentic tasks.

Taking GRASPS of Real World Learning

June 6, 2025 / Authentic Task, GRASPS, Planning, Real World Learning

Using the GRASPS Model for Authentic Learning I remember sitting at an education conference, sipping lukewarm hotel tea, when I was first introduced to the GRASPS model for authentic assessment tasks. Honestly, I thought it was just another acronym to learn and promptly forget (we’ve all been there). But friends, this one stuck. It didn’t

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