Opinion: Charter Schools Fight The McDonaldization Of Education
Public charter schools have flexibility to implement more individualized learning models that promote curiosity, inquiry, & critical thinking.
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What Is The MAP Reading Fluency Test?
The MAP Reading Fluency test is an adaptive reading test to assess the reading fluency of students in grades K-3.
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12 Things Schools Could Be Instead Of Schools
There’s no reason a ‘school’ can’t become a tech-infused place-based learning environment that focuses on literacy and civic participation.
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What Is The Identity Of Your Classroom?
Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.
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12 Barriers To Innovation In Education
While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
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52 Mistakes We Need To Stop Making In Education
We Need To Stop Making These Mistakes In Education by Terry Heick The context for this one is simple enough–what mistakes do we constantly make in education that hold us back from the best versions of ourselves? From realizing our collective potential as a construct, field, and industry? What mistakes do we make over and over…
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Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area
By exposing students to critical content over and over again in increasingly complex ways, spiraling is a flexible and potent curriculum mapping strategy.
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12 Things That Will Disappear From Classrooms In The Next 12 Years
Desks, tests, computer labs, and more. Here are 12 things that could disappear from classrooms in the next 12 years.
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25 Of The Most Misunderstood Ideas In Education
Some of the misunderstood ideas in education include the role of parents, the function of a letter grade, and what it means to ‘understand.’
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Why Parents Don’t Understand How To Help
Families and communities often only recognize the bits and pieces of education they’ve seen before–letter grades, essays, book reports, and report cards.
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The Perfect Test: 32 Characteristics Of Quality Assessment
If we can design anything–not just digitize multiple choice questions, but start from scratch — what would a quality assessment be like?
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Where Students Live Affects What They Need To Know
The value of ‘place’ in learning lies in its context: People seek to know things in order to do them, and these things are done in a ‘place’.
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20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching
How can you reflect on your teaching to grow each semester/year? To make teaching easier? Better? More powerful? More fun? More efficient?
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4 Stages Of Edtech Integration From A Student Perspective
Mobile technology erodes the traditional classroom. Truly ‘mobile’ learners should disrupt non-flexible curriculum.
