Category: Learning

Blogging Challenge, Identity and Picassoheads

Task One: This week’s Edublog’s blogging challenge asks us to reflect on our online identity compared to our “real life” identity. Т On my blog site and on Twitter, I tend […]

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“If we all had exactly the same kind of mind…”

“…and there was only one kind of intelligence, then we could teach everybody the same thing in the same way and assess them in the same way and that would […]

A Take On Speaking and Listening

ELA teachers sometimes gloss over the CCSS’s Speaking and Listening standards. Based on conversations with friends who employ 18-25 year-olds, this is evident in some graduates’ job performance. Our task […]

Student Empowerment: Goal Setting and Grit in the Classroom

Mind toolsТ describes the acronym SMART goals in the following way: “SТ – Specific (or Significant),Т MТ – Measurable (or Meaningful),Т AТ – Attainable (or Action-Oriented),Т RТ – Relevant (or Rewarding), andТ TТ – Time-bound (or Trackable)” I like that […]

’53 Ways to Check Understanding’

Edutopia recently published a list with creative suggestions on how to acknowledge, assess student understandings. Opening up “measures” or ways to know what students know, allows for an assessment on […]

Learning Space: Think, Believe, Share

Students are beginning to work on This I Believe essays. In this image, students have paired up with a partner from across the room to discuss the strengths/writing strategies of […]

Learning Space: Summer, One Long Learning Adventure

This is a picture of a senior looking through the “Summer of Mo” (Mosaic) presentations. Every summer, we ask our students to treat the summer like one long learning adventure […]

Learning Space: A Season of Firsts

At 6:05pm, my classroom is all set up and ready for students to show up for their first day of school tomorrow. I’ve used Brandi’s Types of Thinking as a […]

Learning Space: We Looked, Then Looked Some More

Students explored this chilly morning, finding an object that appealed to them, looking at it for an extended period, and using words and pictures to describe their objects. Practicing focused […]

Learning Space: Room 13

Back to School at ACPA: http://artcollegeprep.org. (Might there be a more boring way to announce the reinvigoration of our learning space in Room 13? Probably. And yet the phrase leaves […]

Transformation Starts With Being Transformed

“Having a creative classroom means that the teacher takes risks on a daily basis and encourages his/her students to do the same.” —Pann Baltz, 1993 ATA Teacher of the Year […]

Day One Download: What We’re Reading

These titles, with great depth and range, are some of the works we’re reading, thinking about, sharing. The Teenage Brain – Frances Jensen http://www.npr.org/books/titles/381619784/the-teenage-brain-a-neuroscientists-survival-guide-to-raising-adolescents-and-yo Material World – Peter Menzel http://www.menzelphoto.com/books/mw.php […]