January 12, 2020 0 Differentiation in Math Class I walk into Ailyn’s math class, where I find a hum of activity. On one side, I see three students [...]
April 6, 2019 2 Life Skill Comments: Student Written Progress Reports One of the best parts of my job as a high school director is watching how one small change leads to another [...]
October 24, 2018 0 The Impact of Self-Assessment on Student Learning Teacher/student SWYCAD conference. Last year, two of our math teachers began experimenting student [...]
September 2, 2018 0 Using Student Work as Mentor Texts Every time we make a change in the classroom, there are unexpected repercussions. Some positive, some more [...]
May 11, 2018 7 Going Gradeless in Math Class About a month ago, I read Andrew Bernett’s blog post How to Create a Gradeless Math Classroom in a [...]
April 14, 2018 7 Empowering Students: Setting Life Skill Goals After introducing students to life skills (skills like critical thinking, communication, leadership, and time [...]
March 3, 2018 2 Using Student Mentor Texts In Writing Workshop For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call [...]
February 3, 2018 20 The Flipped Feedback Experiment I love teaching writing, and I think one of the most important things educators can do is give strong [...]
September 23, 2017 3 Going Gradeless with Portfolios A couple of years ago, we began the exciting journey of implementing the ideas from Leaders of Their Own [...]
September 14, 2017 0 Teaching Life and Career Skills With Breakout Edu In a quickly frantically changing world, educators are all too aware that much of the content we teach [...]