February 17, 2016 11 Students Use Learning Targets to Assess Teaching This year, our teachers took on the school-wide challenge of using learning targets in their classrooms. At [...]
February 8, 2016 1 Using Centers to Improve Professional Development for Teachers In the education world, professional development for teachers often gets a bad rap… and for good [...]
January 28, 2016 2 Centers in Secondary School? Yes! Elementary teachers use all kinds of creative teaching techniques to keep their students [...]
January 24, 2016 4 Digital Teaching Tools — A Professional Development PLAYdate I take part in a daily twitter chat (#BFC530) in which a group of inspiring educators share ideas and support [...]
January 14, 2016 2 5 Habits for Excellence in Teaching Normally, I spend most of my time observing secondary-level Language Arts teachers, and each teacher is [...]
December 14, 2015 1 Creating Community to Minimize Bullying In a school, when we make the commitment to minimize bullying, we have to take a number of steps [...]
November 29, 2015 0 Using LiveBinders to Organize Your Teaching When I first started teaching (around 27 years ago), there was no internet – and in the Dominican [...]
November 26, 2015 1 Sharing Our Failures in the Classroom The other day, I watched a TED talk by David Damburger called “Learning from Failure.” [...]
November 22, 2015 3 The Learning Target Experiment Part 2 During the 2014-15 school year, we discovered the book Leaders of Their Own Learning by Ron Berger, Leah [...]
October 26, 2015 4 The Learning Target Experiment Part I At The Community for Learning (TCFL), we’re constantly working to engage our students in class, to [...]