April 14, 2024 0 Fostering Student Autonomy Through Free Choice Writing I love the fact that when teachers experiment with new strategies, they’ll naturally want to build on [...]
January 29, 2024 1 Using Conferences to Improve Students’ Self-Assessment Skills I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m [...]
August 9, 2023 0 A Case Study: Empowering Students Through a Gradeless Approach. At The Community for Learning (TCFL) we use a gradeless approach to assessment in elementary. Instead of [...]
April 22, 2022 3 How to Use Learning Journeys to Facilitate Student-Led Learning After spending a year and a half in remote learning, many of our students were having difficulty returning to [...]
October 10, 2021 0 Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment of the Writing Process Sandy is busily writing the first draft of her personal narrative in 7th grade language arts. Ten minutes [...]
September 26, 2020 1 6 Ways to Give Effective Virtual Feedback in Less Time This September — after being tossed into an emergency online teaching stint in March — [...]
August 29, 2020 1 Making Virtual Class Discussions Engaging Using the TQE Method, Breakout Rooms, and Self-Assessment Example of one group’s work in our virtual TQE discussion. A couple of years ago, I came across [...]
May 26, 2020 3 Lessons from Virtual Learning: Teaching Self-Advocacy Graphic adapted from: rule-the-school.com At TCFL, we teach certain self-advocacy skills to our students. [...]
May 23, 2020 2 Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
April 7, 2020 0 How Administrators Can Go “Gradeless” and Assess Teachers Through Feedback I’m a big believer in modeling what we want to see teachers do in their classroom. For instance, we [...]