March 8, 2017 11 Qualities of an Effective Lead-Learner As often as I can, I join the #BFC530 Twitter chat – a group of educators who chat every weekday [...]
March 1, 2017 6 The Many Lessons of an Independence Day Program February 27th is Dominican Independence Day and to celebrate, our students put on an annual [...]
February 25, 2017 6 Scaffolding Literary Analysis: Step-by-Step to Reach Success Let’s face it — for most students, literary analysis is just plain hard. And teaching it is even [...]
January 21, 2017 0 Creating Independent Learners with Ongoing Self-Assessment Teaching students the meta-cognitive skill of self-assessment empowers them and puts them in charge of their [...]
January 14, 2017 10 Concentration 101: Teaching Students to Focus In the last few years, complaints about the amount of homework assigned in our secondary school have [...]
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 [...]
January 3, 2017 7 Reflections on #OneWord2017 I love making New Year’s resolutions. That sense of a fresh start, of reinventing myself, always fills [...]
December 5, 2016 3 Venturing into the World of Hyperdocs Recently, in a Twitter chat, I was introduced to hyperdocs: cool, interactive Google documents or slides [...]
November 13, 2016 8 Teaching Students Life and Career Skills Last year, I had an aha! moment while on a Twitter chat (by the way, if you’re an educator, Twitter [...]
October 31, 2016 3 No Rewards: Why We Shouldn’t Reward Students The other day, during a #HackLearning chat on Twitter, we talked about praise and intrinsic motivation. [...]