Start the School Year Off With Strategies to Build Community and Enhance Engagement and Ownership of Learning
Taking the time to welcome students back to school and help them build a positive and productive learning community is more important now than ever before. Over the past month, I h
Play Doh Pictionary and Charades Race Online
Play Doh Pictionary and Charades Race are two of my favorite activities for integrating academic or training content review and reflection with community building and social and em
October Newsletter: Re-Imagining Meaningful Engagement, Social and Emotional Learning and Community Building
When my travels to facilitate professional development came to an abrupt halt in March, I couldn’t imagine how I would bring my experiential facilitation, teaching, social an
Insights Into the Art of Intentional, Purposeful, and Participant-Centered Facilitation and Teaching from the Inspired Educator Blog:
Excerpt from Experiential Tools Newsletter Oct 2nd, 2020: In the midst of learning about exciting new updates on Zoom, helpful new apps, the latest tech tools, and creative activit
The Most Versatile Activity in My Toolbox: Team Tally (In-Person or Online)
A Multipurpose Activity for Community Building, Reflection, Review, Data Gathering, Peer Teaching, and Formative Assessment In past posts, I’ve explored the idea of re-purposing
Object and No Prop Pair Share Activities to Set the Tone, Build Community, and Initiate Reflective Discussions:
August is a month of new beginnings for educators and group facilitators. These last weeks of summer are filled with back to school meetings, training, student community building,

