Personalized learning, the practice of tailoring instruction to meet each student’s strengths, needs, and interests, helps create a classroom environment that engages and accelerates learning for...
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Research shows that using formative assessment can improve student learning. One of the ways formative assessment does this is by improving student engagement, a challenge for any teacher. Research...
Read moreAs the school year was winding down, John Wink had a blog post entitled The Principal’s Summer Excellence Checklist. Having served in this capacity in the past, I reviewed his list with interest....
Read moreThere is a buzz in the air! If you haven’t felt it yet, you soon will. It’s hard to avoid reminders like the dancing antics of overly enthusiastic students excited about their trendy new clothes...
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College and Career Readiness Standards require that students be able to apply the knowledge and skills that they learn during academic instruction. One way for students to demonstrate the skills that...
Read moreThere are places in every content area where formative assessment occurs naturally and most often implicitly. Sports and the arts are two examples where we move from practice to final performance and...
Read moreDid you know that all assessment data have a shelf life and by shelf life I mean a time when it is no longer useful for making instructional or learning decisions and needs to be “refreshed” or...
Read moreI attended the NWEA Fusion Central conference (July 7-9, 2015) and was delighted at the opportunity to learn, meet, and greet partners both known and unknown (and even a few co-workers!). While the...
Read moreOne of the benefits of getting interim assessment data from MAP is that teachers can use the information to create flexible groups to support student learning needs. But are these groups a good idea?...
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Today’s world of children’s literature is a myriad of subjects and genres, capable of supporting any unit or path of study. As Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) has moved more to the...
Read moreAs a speech language pathologist, I often get questions surrounding instructional strategies for English Learners whenever I facilitate professional development workshops, so I thought that it might...
Read moreWhenever anyone asks if I play golf, I say that if erupting volcanoes and colored balls are involved I do much better. While I took golf in college and have taken lessons just a couple of years ago,...
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