For years, I held a very teacher-centered view of assessment. I would grade student work and use that to modify lessons and pull small groups. Students would receive a grade, which would then motivate them to work harder. Later, I started realizing that my feedback…
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All three of my kids have missed a significant number days because of the need to quarantine. The Omicron variant is sweeping through our neighborhoods and our local school district recently created a no-contact day this last Friday. Many caregivers and community members are concerned…
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This is the first in a summer series on owning your professional learning. I created a sketch video as a preview. If you enjoy the video, would you click the "like" button and consider subscribing to my channel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw53uRedr5U&feature=youtu.be Right now, teachers all over the…
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I have a bobble head of myself on the bookshelves in my office. It's a bit of an Easter egg that you can find in some of my videos. On the surface, this item seems arrogant and excessive. And yet, I didn't buy the bobble…
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It took me years to transform my instruction toward a more student-centered approach. This is my story where I share my journey toward student ownership through student choice. Note that this is a revision of a post I wrote last year. I'm taking a few…
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For years, we have set up a tiered system of differentiation to go beyond the one-size-fits-all model. But what if there's another way? How can we redesign the systems so that student ownership becomes a reality? The Problem with Average The notion of average is…
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Over the last three years, I have realized that there were key things I want to learn more about. The first topic was business. Although I didn't see it this way at first, I quickly realized that as we launched a blogging platform, we were…
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