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 [...]
May 27, 2017 7 Merging #Booksnaps with Sketchnotes Example of a #BookSnap For the last little while, I’ve been playing with #BookSnaps, the very cool idea [...]
April 29, 2017 3 Exploring Theme – Teamwork in Action Our Language Arts team often gets together to discuss areas of difficulty and to [...]
March 13, 2017 4 Lowering Test Anxiety: How to Nip Test-Taking Fears in the Bud As educators, it’s a scenario we see frequently: all too often, students will come into my office [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]