Schoolutions: Curious Educators. Evidence-Based Strategies. Classrooms Where Every Child Thrives.

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Your Students Can't Explore If You Already Have the Answer

2026-11-0922:34

What if the worst thing you could bring to tomorrow's lesson is the answer? For part one of my S6E9 Schoolutions conversation, I sat down with Dr. Annalies Corbin, an anthropologist and archaeologist who has spent her career excavating shipwrecks. Every dig starts the same way. Nobody knows for sure what's down there. Annalies believes every lesson should start that way too. She founded the PAST Foundation, which has helped schools in 42 states connect classroom learning to real-world probl...

Who Will Protect Our Culture When We're Gone?

2026-11-0618:08

If you ask a second grader at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary what they want to protect for seven generations, you might hear salmon. Or drumming. Or the right to wear their hair long. In part two of our S6E8 Schoolutions conversation, co-teachers Kristin Page and Dr. Melissa Cullen show me how they teach six- and seven-year-olds that what they do today reaches people who haven't been born yet. Their students drum, sing, and write about the people who came before them. They call themselves cult...

Your Kid's Behavior Is Trying to Tell You Something

2026-11-0401:00

Students tune out when the curriculum comes out of a box. Melissa and Kristin explain what changes when lessons connect to who kids actually are, and why classroom behavior often tells you something. Their students go home and tell their families, "I need more sleep" or "I need to eat better." Caregivers are surprised. The conversations stick because the learning is real, and that builds a home-school connection no newsletter can match. Melissa doesn't bail kids out. Students do the learnin...

How One School Starts Every Day with a Whole-Child Check-In (Try it Tuesday Teacher Move)

2026-11-0301:18

Try It Tuesday: Start Class with a Whole-Child Check-In (Not a Bell Ringer!) Before you jump into your lesson, try connecting as a community first. In this week's Try It Tuesday, I share a simple morning circle routine inspired by the Quil Ceda Tulalip Learning Community, an elementary school that checks in with the whole child at the start of every day. Middle and high school teachers can use it at the start of every period. The Quil Ceda Tulalip Resiliency Framework is a circle with four ...

How a Longhouse Floor Can Change the Way Kids Learn to Belong

2026-11-0224:10

Every morning at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington, drummers and singers greet students at the gym doors. Kids dance on a floor that stands for a longhouse. Then they walk back to class, where first and second grade co-teachers Kristin Page and Dr. Melissa Cullen carry that energy into every lesson until the last bell. I've studied their classroom for a year. In part one of our S6E8 Schoolutions conversation, they show us how culturally responsive teaching ...

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Schoolutions: Curious Educators. Evidence-Based Strategies. Classrooms Where Every Child Thrives.