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Everything I Needed to Know About Teaching, I Learned from Black Women: Recommended Reading List
Early Influencers So, the title of this blog is not completely true. Still, the majority of this piece details why it may as well be true for me and why it should be for you, too. First though, in any discussion on what I know about teaching I’d...
Mastery Week 2018: Two Best Practices for Crafting Mastery Assessments
No matter what kind of system you teach in – assessment – knowing what your students know and are able to do – is essential to understanding what students are learning. In mastery-based systems, in particular, where the focus shifts from time-based...
6 Ways to Use Drawing to Make Meaning
Reflections on pedagogy that works for marginalized students. More than 15 years ago, Mike Schmoker’s “The ‘Crayola Curriculum’” appeared in Education Week. In it, Schmoker laments the loss of opportunity in classrooms where students...
I’m Not Sure How to Talk About Social Justice in My Classroom: How to Provide Opportunities for Students to Do the Talking!
As race-related events, gender politics, and mass shootings permeate the news cycle over the last few months, you may be wondering how you might address some of these issues in your classroom. For some teachers, facilitating a controversial...
Multiple Pathways to Success: NYC's Transfer School Institute
By Laurie Gagnon, Educational Designer at reDesign, in collaboration with reDesign team members Dixie Bacallao, Tracy Bauer, Morgan Hildesley, and Antonia Rudenstine This post originally appeared on EdWeek here. There are lots of school...
Meet Angela, Our Equity-Driven, Empowering, and Transformative Educational Designer
Angela Stepancic has joined our team at reDesign after what has already been an impressive, revolutionary, and impactful career. In order to highlight her accomplishments and expertise, we connected with Angela to learn more about her background in...