In working on some new designs for professional learning, I’ve been pushing myself to think about new strategies to engage both learners and facilitators – ways to get both parties thinking...

Engineering your classroom environment to regularly solicit evidence of student understanding creates engaged students, while providing teachers the information they need to adjust instruction as...

When I think about Carol Dweck and praise, I am taken back to the Educational Leadership article in 2005 entitled, The Perils and Promises of Praise (PDF). It feels like the title begins to outline...

Do you have a Fitbit or some other fitness tracker? Why did you get one? What do you use it for? What kind of results are you seeing? Do you share your results? Have you connected with others using...

There 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...

Research has shown that increasing student engagement improves student learning. In fact, in 1990, Skinner, Wellborn, and Connell (What it takes to do well in school and whether I’ve got it: A...