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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…