Conflict Book Covers: What Truly Sells a Book?
Tweet Janine Johnson is in her second career, having worked in marketing and public relations before obtaining her master’s in educational technology with K-12 library media certification from...
View ArticleBooks R Us: Growing a Culture of Readers at Hopewell Elementary School
Tweet Books R Us is a student created podcast that discusses new and not yet published children’s books. At Hopewell Elementary School in Bettendorf, Iowa, students and teachers are dedicated to...
View ArticleReading Challenges and Resolutions
Tweet This post was first published on the School Library Journal and is reprinted with permission. This time of year is ripe for resolutions. It’s a good time to resolve to read and, perhaps, to...
View ArticleTurning Up the Volume in the Library Through Personalization
Tweet Michelle Luhtala is the library department chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, which won AASL’s National School Library Program of the year in 2010. Michelle was named a Library...
View ArticleStandards-Based Grading: It’s The Right Thing To Do
Tweet This post first appeared on PowerSchool and is reprinted with permission. Ken O’Connor, The Grade Doctor, expands on the question: What is standards-based grading? Let’s go back to basics and...
View ArticleHow Standards-Based Grading Helps Me Do My Best Work
Tweet Junior honors students have recently been provided with the opportunity to experience the standards-based grading system at Daniel Hand High School. Standards-based grading eliminates the fear of...
View ArticleMy Journey to Standards Based Grading
Tweet When I began teaching 12 years ago, after two other careers, I did not have the typical mindset of a “new” teacher. First, because I had spent three years in a middle school special education...
View ArticleGetting Started in Standards-Based Grading: Creating Course Standards
Tweet English teacher Denise Earles from Madison Public Schools, CT is part of an innovation project to experiment with standards based grading in a traditional school system. Kevin Siedlecki is in...
View ArticleClassrooms Full of Learners: The Culture Standards-Based Grading Has Cultivated
Tweet The first time I heard about Standards-Based Grading was when Rick Wormeli came to speak at our school at the start of the 2016-2017 school year. He convinced me that I had to change the way I...
View ArticleWhat Impact Does Standards-Based Grading have on Students and Teachers?
Tweet Get these newsletters delivered straight to your inbox! What we grade and how we grade sends a clear message to students what matters. Do we value risk-taking? Do we value revision and...
View ArticleHelping Students Find Their V.O.I.C.E.
Tweet Instructional practices, like the physical formats of music, have evolved in response to technological developments. Vinyl records made way for 8-tracks as primers became textbooks. Cassette...
View ArticleExplore Perspectives and Limit Biases with These News Source Tools
Tweet This post first appeared on Leveraging Technology for Learning and is reprinted with permission. Since the dawn of 24/7 cable news some 30 years ago, the lines between fact and opinion in our...
View ArticleInspiring Students Through Technology
Tweet In this day and age it’s almost impossible to walk into a classroom and see a teacher instructing his or her class without a computer. There is good reason for this. Technology provides us with...
View ArticleAssessing Your Technology Integration
Tweet This post was first published on Inside the Classroom, Outside the Box. It is reprinted with permission. “The technology itself is not transformative. It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is...
View ArticleReplacing Research Papers and PowerPoint Presentations with Student Websites
Tweet This post first appeared on Leveraging Technology for Learning and is reprinted with permission. In working with teachers and students at Polson Middle School and Hand High School, I’ve seen...
View ArticleWhat Role Does Technology Play in Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind?
Tweet Technology can accelerate personalized learning. The premise — technology enables the scaling of more student-centered, personalized education. In this blog post, for example, a group of...
View ArticleFrom the Ashes, the American Shopping Mall Rises …
Tweet In the 1980s, going to one was considered the ultimate experience. People did not simply journey to these “cathedrals of consumption,” they planned for exciting extended outings. It was the place...
View ArticlePat Keklotz Interview with Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda
Tweet Pat Keklotz, Superintendent in Kettle Moraine School District in WI, chatted with Allison Zmuda and Bena Kallick about her 13-year journey with Personalized Learning and Habits of Mind. Her wise...
View ArticleSix Tips for Leading Schools with ‘Habits of Mind’ in Mind
Tweet This post first appeared on trustED and is reprinted with permission. Think about the instructions that you are given by the steward before an airplane takes off: “In the unlikely event of a lack...
View ArticleFour Attributes To Grow a Personalized Learning Culture
Tweet This post first appeared on ASCD Inservice. The language of the culture very much reflects the feelings, behaviors, and actions that the culture values. We often live by the metaphors that we...
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