Here are some great links to information and ideas the NWP staff shares and discusses regularly as a part of our collaborative planning time.

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TED TALKS
• Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
• Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity
• Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
• Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
• Ken Robinson: How to Escape Education's Death Valley
• Tim Brown- Creativity and Play
• How we suppress genius and create learning disability: Scott Sonnon

Related Videos
• Where Good Ideas Come From
• What is Project-Based Learning?
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BLOGS
• Thom Markham
• The Finnish Paradox
• Can Content-Based Instruction Coexist With Inquiry-Based Instruction?
• Creating Classrooms We Need
• Space Matters • You Can't Teach Understanding
• A Good Question is Better Than a Great Answer
• Anyone Still Listening?
• Learners Should Be Developing Their Own Questions
• The Art of Powerful Questions 
• The Shift From Teaching Content to Teaching Learning
• The Importance of Play
• Tech and Trust
• Design Thinking
• More Design Thinking
• Design Thinking Caveats
• Struggle Means Learning
• Growth Vs. Fixed Mindset
• Presence, Not Praise
• Portfolio Defense: Where Graduates Make Their Case
• The 10 most important work skills you’ll need in 2020
• Beyond the Bubble Test- Why We Need Performance Assessments
• Disruptive Collaboration
• The Need for Inquiry and Getting Rid of Grades
• Learn alone, or together?
• Discourse in Schools
• Grading Mistakes That Haunt Students
• Make School a Democracy
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WEBSITES

• alfiekohn.org
• Edutopia
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