education week

  • Student Goal Setting in the Classroom

    Below is my response for Larry Ferlazzo’s Classroom Q & A for Education Week. You can view all of the responses by clicking here. Enjoy! Used smartly and with intent, goal setting can be a game changer in engaging our students in their own learning process. Writing down goals makes them concrete. Sharing goals…

  • What is Metacognition? How Do We Teach It? An Education Week podcast and response

    I recently participated in an Education Week/BAM Radio interview with Larry Ferlazzo, Teresa Diaz and Laura Robb. The topic for our short podcast was metacognition. Click here to listen to the podcast, and read on for my written response on the topic of metacognition. Metacognition is defined as “awareness and understanding of one’s own…

  • What I’m Reading: September 2015

    Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question. -E.E. Cummings photo credit: What is this key for? via photopin (license) Early Literacy Research: Findings Primary-Grade Teachers Will Want to Know by D. Ray Reutzal (The Reading Teacher, July/August 2015) The Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming addresses the most…

  • What I’m Reading – May 2015

    My Favorite Teachers Use Social Media: A Student Perspective by Katie Benmar (Education Week, April 21, 2015) Student voice is so often missing in conversations about education, that it is almost a surprise when we hear it above the din of educators. Katie Benmar, a high school student in Seattle, shares both the benefits…

  • Beliefs and Values

    Leadership is 90 percent pulling weeds and 10 percent planting seeds.- Austan Goolsbee Common Core Reading: Difficult, Dahl, Repeat by Cory Turner (nprED, November 15, 2014) National Public Radio profiled a fifth grade classroom and their use of Common Core-aligned texts and practices. Turner described one lesson on close reading, with the teacher getting…

  • Season of Change

    The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. – John Dewey What Reflects a Great School? Not Test Scores by Regie Routman (Education Week, October 22, 2014) Regie Routman writes a very pointed commentary about the educational world’s infatuation with standardized tests. She admits that it is possible to…