Friday, November 16, 2012

Standards-Based Grading, or How Teaching For Mastery is Different

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Teaching for mastery is different. Teaching for mastery especially means giving up a lot of old and cherished assumptions about assessment...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A Day in the Life: cheesemonkeysf edition

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5:59 am - Dog begins licking my toes and face insistently. 6:00 am - Shot out of a cannon. Or the alarm went off. Can't remembe...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

What We Actively Value, Versus What We Tell Students We Value

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Lately I've become acutely aware of what I actively value in my classroom, which has entailed an uncomfortable amount of noticing the co...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

And this is why I teach...

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It was another crappy Friday in an arithmetic series of crappy Fridays that were running together and threatening to define the limit of my ...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Radio Silence Does Not Mean Nothing Is Happening...

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Wow, did I ever fall off the radar. Plop. That "splat" you might have heard was me, falling off the blogging radar. But I...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

INBs Day 2: the Test & the Announcement of the INB Beauty Pageant on Friday

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Students did pretty well on today's "Parts of the INB test." The lowest grades were low As, which made me very happy. I gave t...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Day 1: INBs and foldables and tests, oh my!

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Introducing the Interactive Notebooks (INBs) on Day 1 of school worked ALMOST PERFECTLY! You should have seen the scissors and tape flying...
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