Grading has always seemed subjective. One teacher gives extra credit points for coming to class prepared (pencil in hand) while another teacher refuses to accept late work (even one day late). One teacher allows students to redo work until mastery while another teacher’s exams don’t directly address her standards. I recently read the November 2011 […]
Late in 2011 I read The Happiness Project (by Gretchen Rubin, 2011), a New York Times Bestseller about a young woman’s journey to improve the quality of her life through fairly simple goals she sets for herself each month. It’s hard not to think about starting your own happiness project as you read her reflections, […]
The impetus behind the development of common core standards was threefold: to hold schools responsible for fewer curricular objectives but taught in depth and mastered by students; to increase challenge and ensure that students were engaged in a rigorous curriculum; and to assure some uniformity of quality among states’ curricula and assessments. The standards hold […]
Metacognition, even with its five syllables, has a simple definition. Metacognition is thinking about our thinking. As a mother, I see my four year old daughter practice metagcognition on a daily basis. Most often it’s when she is practicing using new words in speech and she’ll begin a sentence only to stop, self-correct, and replace […]
I think the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) are the game changers that we’ve been searching for in mathematics…
Anyone who has been in education for long knows the cyclical nature. Fads of teaching come and go and come again and yesterday’s PD is replaced by…
I’ve been writing about college readiness in my last few blogs, including what schools can do to prepare students for college by strengthening school culture
