April 14, 2024 0 Fostering Student Autonomy Through Free Choice Writing I love the fact that when teachers experiment with new strategies, they’ll naturally want to build on [...]
September 25, 2022 0 Relevance in Project-Based Learning – Connecting History to Real World Issues Translation: We decided to create a movement Pia, our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts and Dominican History [...]
March 3, 2018 2 Using Student Mentor Texts In Writing Workshop For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
October 19, 2015 0 Trust and the “Test of Time” All my life I’ve trusted people easily. I may not trust every news article I read, but I do have faith [...]
October 15, 2015 0 Exercise and Education A few years back, I read Brain Rules by John Medina and was struck by just how linked exercise and cognition [...]
July 5, 2015 0 Students Reflect on the Year This year we had our five-year follow-up visit from NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) [...]