Reading Response Questions That Work With Most Texts
Students needed to see what a ‘quality’ reading response looked like. Once these questions were demystified a bit, it was all downhill.
4 Stages Of Edtech Integration From A Student Perspective
Mobile technology erodes the traditional classroom. Truly ‘mobile’ learners should disrupt non-flexible curriculum.
What Is The Purpose Of School?
How much of your intelligence, your affection, your skill, and your pride is employed in your work? What are its ecological and social costs?
Why You Should Be Tagging Your Curriculum
Why should you tag your curriculum? Because it makes it easier to skim, search, analyze, evaluate, and use what you use to teach.
What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’?
What Is Really, Truly ‘Best For The Kids’? by Terry Heick What’s best for the kids. I remember hearing this phrase when I was handed a towering stack of fluency probes that represented about 3-4 hours of “in addition to” work per week. I wasn’t against the idea behind it all (supporting the literacy of…
13 Standards For A Near-Future School
Artificial Intelligence will be a core part of learning, helping students choose books, assessment forms, learning strategies, and more.
Learning Is Different Than Education
Learning is different than education. Learning is driven by curiosity, self-directed & supported; the other is metered, led & caused.
The Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
How To Get Along With Teachers Who Think Differently Than You
One would think that as long as both teachers teach to those ‘same standards,’ all would be well, but it’s not always that’s simple.
Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information.
Learning is an experience. It’s organic and perishable and turns over on itself constantly like a restless, sleeping animal.
What Is The Purpose Of A Question?
The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.
21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read and write.
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