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The Importance of Vision – for the Educator

Blog, Discipleship, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Philosophy, Spiritual Formation, Teaching for Transformation | September 26, 2023

Curriculum Trak is pleased to share with our readers a series of articles from Stacy Kok about what it means to be a godly educator. Knowing that many of you believe that education is God’s calling in your life, we plan to share each month about what this calling...

The Two Main Problems of Health Education…And Two Simple Solutions

Blog, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Pedagogy, Resources | April 5, 2023

By the time I was a junior in high school, I was almost 300 lbs. I was prediabetic, had horrible heartburn, and felt very low confidence. This had gone on for years until I was finally fed up with living like that. I ended up losing over 100 pounds by the time I...

Classroom Management in a Post-Pandemic World

Blog, Classroom Culture, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Pedagogy, Social-Emotional, Teaching Strategies | December 13, 2022

In Quantitative Analysis, they teach you to stick with one independent variable to assure validity and reliability in your results. In real life, change often occurs due to a confluence of variables. Not only is today’s student population unlike that of previous...

Sharon Eagen: A Life of Growing and Learning

Blog, Educator Insights, Effectiveness, Pedagogy, Reflection, Teaching Strategies | November 10, 2022

We recently interviewed Sharon Eagen, long time educator of students and teachers, whose thirst for learning has led her to pursue learning, training, and coaching opportunities across the country and around the world. While her story may or may not be too different...

Accountable or Responsible?

Accountability, Blog, Effectiveness, School Culture, School Mission | October 6, 2022

Over the years that I have been involved with Curriculum Trak I have heard many administrators talk about “helping” their staff out by creating curriculum maps for their teachers. “It is a lot to ask of our teachers to create all those maps.” “My staff does...

Growth and Grief: A Cautionary Tale

Blog, Effectiveness, Reflection | May 6, 2022

Like many teachers, I like to view myself as an innovator when it comes to my instructional practices. As I grew from a novice to a more experienced practitioner, I prided myself in being willing to try new things, applying what I was learning from the experts in my...