Assessment/feedback

June 29, 2017 2

Each June, as the school year wraps up, I like to take a minute to look back on what went well and what I [...]

April 15, 2017 23

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Last year, Jean Erickson, our Language Arts teacher extraordinaire, gave [...]

March 13, 2017 4

As educators, it’s a scenario we see frequently: all too often, students will come into my office [...]

February 25, 2017 6

Let’s face it — for most students, literary analysis is just plain hard. And teaching it is even [...]

January 21, 2017 0

Teaching students the meta-cognitive skill of self-assessment empowers them and puts them in charge of their [...]

January 9, 2017 2

Testing: we all know assessment is important, but oh, the anxiety it causes! In the best of all possible [...]

November 13, 2016 6

Last year, I had an aha! moment while on a Twitter chat (by the way, if you’re an educator, Twitter chats [...]

October 31, 2016 3

The other day, during a #HackLearning chat on Twitter, we talked about praise and intrinsic motivation. I [...]

Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread them. [...]

May 26, 2016 4

A couple of months ago, we began trying out protocols for professional development with our teachers and [...]

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