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 [...]
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 [...]