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Letter to the President
by aaron schmidt Diane Ravitch writes, speaks and blogs about education reform. Not the kind of reform that jeopardizes education but the kind of reform that will make education a priority for all...
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HW and Trust
Flickr Photo (cc) Thinking about homework again I’ve heard some of the reasons for giving homework and it boils down to trust. It seems, by the way some teachers talk, that they don’t trust that...
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Why Go Gradeless?
StockVault Photo (cc) Coming up on three years ago, after 19 years of teaching, I began to question grading. I wrote a blog post titled, Do Grades Help or Hinder Learning? I knew that grading, the...
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I came across this post on SmartBlog on Education written by Paul Cancellieri (@mrscienceteach) on grading. Paul makes another great case not only for NOT using grades as carrots and sticks but also...
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Student Survey Time
Midterm is upon us and I reminded my students of how things are different at this time in an ungraded classroom. I hear them talking about what grades they are getting in their other classes because at...
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Gamification Alternative to Grading?
One thing that’s really cool about Twitter is that you’re allowed to be nosey. People know that anyone who follows them can read what they’re tweeting. Now that may be obvious to everyone but I tend to...
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Changing Math
[This is part of a series of posts I'm writing as I reflect on another online course I'm taking this summer, Stanford University's EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I'm a Science teacher but I have...
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Teacher Moves
[This is part of a series of posts I'm writing as I reflect on another online course I'm taking this summer, Stanford University's EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I'm a Science teacher but I have...
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Growth Mindset
[This is part of a series of posts I'm writing as I reflect on another online course I'm taking this summer, Stanford University's EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I'm a Science teacher but I have...
View ArticleResults Only Learning Environment #RoleTalk
Monday night Mark Barnes held a Results Only Learning Environment or ROLE Twitter chat based on his book, ROLE Reversal. I read his book earlier this summer and I’m totally going to transform my...
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