When L&D Staff Augmentation Wins Over Outsourcing In the world of corporate Learning and Development (L&D), one thing is certain: demands on your internal team are growing faster than your headcount. New tools, tighter deadlines, evolving business priorities, and shrinking budgets are forcing L&D leaders to make tough calls. One of the biggest? Whether to…

by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy’s verbs–also known as power verbs or thinking verbs–are extraordinarily powerful instructional planning tools. In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to. Why? As research has suggested, they can be used for assessment design,…

Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, May 27, 2025…  May marks the beginning of harvest season when some 800,000 farmworkers in California get to work picking food that lands on tables around the world. Though agriculture is a nearly $60 billion industry in the state, many farmworkers on the Central Coast don’t have…

Microlearning: Small Steps, Strong Minds In today’s work environment, employees are balancing more than just deadlines. They’re managing stress, emotional fatigue, and growing mental health problems. As burnout rises and attention spans shrink, traditional learning methods fail to tackle these challenges. But what if the format of learning itself could become part of the solution?…

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re enthusiastic supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.) Put simply, learning taxonomies help us think about how learning happens. Even if they’re ‘not good’ as we’ve often seen the DOK framework described, they still highlight that there are many ways to frame thinking…

Ricci said that after the fire was put out, an investigator was called to the scene, and “based on the preliminary investigation, the fire appears to be an intentional act.” On early Tuesday morning, a pile of redwood siding and insulation sat adjacent to the damage, which constituted a relatively small corner of the church’s…

Bridging Classroom Content With Real-World Purpose Have you ever thought about how calculus applies to everyday life? Or pondered the importance of talking about the complexities of ancient civilizations in casual chat with friends? Such instances are probably infrequent. Thus, when a student asks in class about the relevance of what they’re learning, it offers…

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students learn.” Whether you’re designing instruction, evaluating an assessment, or observing a classroom, Bloom’s remains a powerful tool for understanding how thinking happens—and how we can better support it through…

A steel-hulled brigantine built in Poland in 1987, the Kaisei — which means “Sea Star” in Japanese — resembles the galleons of yore, serving for years as a sailing training vessel in Japan. Since acquiring the ship around 2001, Ocean Voyages has taken it on three separate expeditions in 2009, 2011 and 2012 to monitor and…

Key Takeaways Lattice is a well-known software for enhancing employee performance and engagement, aimed at promoting overall success within organizations. It’s a clean and user-friendly platform with key features, including performance reviews, 1:1s, goal setting, seamless integration, and employee feedback. Lattice offers various plans, such as Performance Management, Goals and OKRs, and HRIS, to cater…