How We Moved Our District Forward Through Data-Based Instruction contributed by Tracey Severns, EdD Dr. Tracey Severns is a nationally recognized and award-winning educator with over 20 years of experience. During the 2011-2012 school year, she served as the principal of Mt. Olive Middle School and adjunct professor in the Educational Leadership program at Centenary…
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To tell a student ‘great job’ or ‘this needs work’ is a missed opportunity. Specific, quality learning feedback can change your teaching.
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It is hard to serve two masters, so standards win.
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Just as with gardening, preparing the soil takes time. But once we get past that, students begin to blossom and initiate their own learning.
Whatever mechanisms YouTube uses to deploy content works. What might happen if education experimented with some of the lessons YouTube’s in the classroom?
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Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read and write.