10.23.13 Jennifer Knestrick STEM and Early Learning – A Little Help from Sesame Street STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - has become a popular topic in education, particularly since 2006 when the President called for greater focus on these subjects to ensure... Read more
9.16.13 Jennifer Knestrick Early Childhood Assessment: 3 Essential Steps to Building Your Plan This is the fifth and final article in a series on assessment best practices and planning for the early elementary grades (pre-K–3). In this series, I’m exploring the core concepts from a white... Read more
9.26.12 Kathy Dyer Educational Strategies: 13 Mistakes to Avoid When Asking Questions If you’re teacher, or have been one at some point in your career, you know you have or had one of the toughest jobs around. There’s a lot of pressure on you – from colleagues to students to... Read more
9.10.12 Gervaise Dupree Personalized Learning Requires Effective Teaching First I was reading Patrick Ledesma’s Ed Week blog post – Personalized Learning Requires Effective Teaching First, Technology Second – and he hits on some fantastic points. In fact I agree with... Read more
8.7.12 Raymond Yeagley School Rigor, Achievement Gaps, and Facing Reality Reading WTOP’s article – Study Hall: How to Determine the Rigor of Kid’s Schools – got me thinking about raising standards and the student achievement gap. Three things came to mind: 1.... Read more
7.25.12 John Wood Schoolwork Too Easy? Or Teacher Effectiveness too Varied? I was recently reading Erik Robelen’s Ed Week blog – Many Students Find Schoolwork ‘Too Easy’ – and it got me thinking about using data from student surveys to make decisions. Student... Read more
7.13.12 Dr. Anne Udall Instructional Strategies: Raising Hands in Class and the Outlier Effect If you’ve ever heard Dylan Wiliam speak on formative assessment strategies, you know he’s not a fan of having kids raise hands to answer questions or take part in conversation. He recently used... Read more
6.29.12 Kelly Goodrich Musings from the NWEA Fusion 2012 Conference Our Fusion 2012 Conference recently wrapped up and the event is now behind us. We had over 900 attendees this year in Portland, Oregon to learn about new formative assessment strategies and... Read more
6.15.12 Kelly Goodrich The Importance of Setting Classroom and Student Expectations At some point, we’ve all been there; in a class or course, where after several sessions it’s still unclear what is expected and how you’ll be graded. Well, both quantitative and qualitative... Read more
5.22.12 Kelly Goodrich Expert Teachers Have Learned – When they use Evidence of Learning to Adapt Their Instruction, all of their Students Learning Improves In a recent blog we posed the question "Have My Students Learned What I Taught Today?". In it we discussed how gathering evidence of student understanding is key to effective classroom instruction.... Read more
5.16.12 Kelly Goodrich Self-Regulation of Learning Leads to Student Performance Improvement For students to become actively engaged with the learning process they need guidelines and opportunities to learn and engage in self-assessment. A program like Keeping Learning on Track can provide... Read more
4.3.12 Kelly Goodrich Have My Students Learned What I Taught Today? Knowing How to Gather Evidence of Student Understanding is Key to Effective Classroom Instruction How do teachers know what their students have learned? Especially when they do not want to wait for... Read more
