by reDesign | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined
Back in July, Jon Altbergs wrote a post: 6 Ways to Use Drawing to Make Meaning. In it, he wrote about some simple activities that teachers across content areas could use to help students develop their visualization skills and make meaning of content, while also giving...
by reDesign | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog, Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined
Reflections on pedagogy that works for marginalized students, written by Jon Altbergs. 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...
by reDesign | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog, Learner-Centered School Design
Our guest contributor, Catherine Epstein, highlights the power of a community that supports initiative, flexibility, and collaboration, and that honors human needs and humane values of empathy and care. Catherine currently teaches Humanities and directs theater at...
by reDesign | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog, Learner-Centered School Design
Reflections on pedagogy that works for marginalized students I have a confession: I hate class discussions. I hate them because they remind me of baseball–which, however, I do enjoy. So please, let me explain. In baseball, most of the time three players are...
by reDesign | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog, Learner-Centered School Design
The day I stopped handing out packets of questions for students to answer at the end of each chapter of the novels I assigned my teaching changed. We Make the Road by Walking by Myles Horton, who founded the Highlander Folk School, and Paulo Freire, who is best know...