Developing Your Formative Assessment Muscles 7.3.18 Kathy Dyer As we ease into summer, I like to think teachers and educators have a little more time and space to think about their... More
What’s the State of Your Professional Learning? 5.17.18 Kathy Dyer It’s nearing the end of the school year, which always makes me reflective. It’s also a time when those of us in... More
Where is your SEL showing in 2018? 1.25.18 Kathy Dyer There has been a lot of conversation over the past year about SEL—social and emotional learning—or that process... More
How One School Used Formative Practices to Take Students from Below Norms to Above Average 11.9.17 Jean Fleming At Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School (OLOH), in South Bend, Indiana, educators faced a universal challenge. As... More
Media Spotlight: Kathy Dyer Featured in EdCircuit 7.28.17 Kara Bobowski Today, our Media Spotlight shines on our own Kathy Dyer, a Senior Professional Development Specialist for NWEA and a... More
Portrait in Partnership: How One District is Equipping Teachers to Lead 7.18.17 Jean Fleming Somerdale Park School District in New Jersey wanted to strengthen their teachers’ capacity to track student growth... More
Seven Things to Consider in a Teacher Professional Development Program 7.11.17 Hugh Fournier Our own Jean Fleming said “skip the clown nose and get down to business” in a recent article she penned for... More
11 Teacher Learning Community Traits that Can Bring Positive Change 6.23.17 Kathy Dyer Changing teacher practice – improving pedagogy – takes time. When teachers get together to learn about ways to... More
Teacher Voices: Pausing to Sharpen Your Axe 12.20.16 Natalie DiFusco-Funk The week before Thanksgiving, I attended a conference where I was lucky enough to hear Mark Brown speak about finding... More
A New Twist on Family Meetings: Student-Led Conferences 10.18.16 Kathy Dyer Since the early 2000s, student-led conferences have been making inroads into the traditional parent/teacher conference... More
Educators’ Superpowers: Activate! 10.6.16 Heather Lageman Life and learning today is all about the questions – not the answers. Ernő Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube,... More
Why We Need Assessment Literacy as Part of Teacher Preparation 9.20.16 Dee Fabry Imagine you go to your radiologist for an X-ray. She is highly qualified to do this task. The radiologist sends the... More
