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 [...]
September 19, 2016 8 Surviving Group Projects Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread [...]
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 [...]
August 22, 2016 12 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 5 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 [...]
March 6, 2016 2 How Teachers Can Check For Students’ Understanding One of the most important things we can do as educators is learn how to check for [...]