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Intentionality vs. Accountability
Generally, I find deep learning occurs through questioning, when I pose content in the form of inquiry it encourages students to reflect on what they know and engage in sense-making of the questions. Sometimes though, we must provide specific evidence, … Continue reading
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Can’t Be Graded
As the first day of school approached this year, I couldn’t help but think of the last day back in June. My daughter’s science teacher, Mr. Fink, called me at home at 9:30 that night. When summer was supposed to … Continue reading
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Give Them Chores
Not long I was talking with a friend about raising kids, carpooling everywhere, working, fixing meals, and all the things that fill our hours between wake and sleep. As I explained the chores list on our refrigerator that our children … Continue reading
Book Review: Dispositions
Art Costa is one of the originators of the Cognitive Coaching practices that I’ve trained in for helping people move their thinking, so it was clear that when he put out a book all about Dispositions, I was dying to … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Power of Positive Deviance
Here’s another book that I read, two pages at a time for more than a year. I found it while researching for my own work on collaborative professional learning. Positive Deviance is the concept of coaching a community (social or … Continue reading
Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
I came across this book in a pile of freebies in a staff room last December, fifty-five years after Viktor Frankl first published it! I’d heard the title for sure along the way, but the small print of “A new … Continue reading
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#MIpubED Community Concerns
As March 2015 winds to a close, the #MIpubED Twitter chats have uncovered more questions than answers…such is learning. In just a month we have discussed standards, high-stakes tests, and the creation of an online community where educators and their … Continue reading
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#MIpubED High-Stakes Tests
Let’s be clear that assessments are not the standards and vice versa. When I was changing careers years ago and had to do a teaching internship, I had this great idea of gathering stories from educators about the trials and … Continue reading
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#MIpubED Common Core/Higher Standards
Two years ago at a community conversation, a highly-educated and evidently highly-conservative parent asked me to assure him that I would not adhere to the Common Core State Standards because, he believed, it would require that I “teach history about … Continue reading
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#MIpubED Community Chat
There is so much going on with public education these days that now is a perfect time to really connect educators with the community members we service (parents, business partners, academia, and basically anyone with a vested interest in our … Continue reading
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