Do you think the First Five Days of School are absolutely essential to the success of the school year? Are you confident that all of your students understand how to learn and globally collaborate in the evolving world of digital content? Do your students understand advanced search? Do they know how to organize the myriad details of what they read on the Internet. Do they know how to contribute to the learning success of the class with easy-to-use tools such as screen casting? What if every teacher designed a very powerful 1stFiveDay orientation for students to "learn how to learn"? Initial pilots have shown that this concept of the 1stFiveDays can create higher levels of academic achievement for the whole year. The good news is that is an accessible and very doable concept. Go team.
