Assessment/feedback

March 3, 2018 2

For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call “flipped [...]

February 3, 2018 19

I love teaching writing, and I think one of the most important things educators can do is give strong [...]

A couple of years ago, we began the exciting journey of implementing the ideas from Leaders of Their Own [...]

In a quickly frantically changing world, educators are all too aware that much of the content we teach may [...]

July 3, 2017 2

The end of the school year has finally arrived, which means it’s time for grades and report cards. But [...]

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 25

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 [...]

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