January 21, 2017 0 Teaching for Mastery: Ongoing Self-Assessment Teaching students the meta-cognitive skill of self-assessment empowers them and puts them in charge of their [...]
January 14, 2017 9 Concentration 101: Teaching Students to Focus In the last few years, complaints about the amount of homework assigned in our secondary school have been [...]
January 9, 2017 2 Performance Assessment in Math: Teaching Others Testing: we all know assessment is important, but oh, the anxiety it causes! In the best of all possible [...]
December 5, 2016 2 Venturing into the World of Hyperdocs Recently, in a Twitter chat, I was introduced to hyperdocs: cool, interactive Google documents or slides [...]
October 14, 2016 13 My Top 5 Strategies for Student-to-Student Interaction I belong to an inspiring and motivating group of educators called #sunchatbloggers. The other day a member of [...]
September 19, 2016 8 Surviving Group Projects Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread them. [...]
September 6, 2016 6 Classroom Gallery Walk for Professional Development Our elementary/secondary shared, individualized PD has begun! I have to admit, I was hesitant to start on [...]
August 22, 2016 11 Breakout EDU: Gamifying Professional Development At our school, we believe that a strong school philosophy is the basis for everything. So, every year in [...]
May 26, 2016 4 Protocols For Peer Feedback in the Classroom A couple of months ago, we began trying out protocols for professional development with our teachers and [...]
April 10, 2016 7 Edcamp for Professional Development Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to the ASCD conference in Atlanta. Five educators from our school [...]