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A Friendly Introduction to the Competency-based Learning Cycle
Can you imagine walking into a library, in search of a particular book, to find the library has no classification system in place? Or what about arriving at the airport, passing through security, and discovering there are no flight information...
Organizing for a Learning-Centered Culture
Does your school, network or district recognize that Learning is Learning is Learning? When I first began working with reDesign’s Framework for Effective Instruction as a building-level administrator, it was a revelation. It was as though I...
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...