5 Misconceptions New Teachers Might Hold
“5 Ways School Leaders Can Support New Teachers”
“Principled Resistance” In Support Of PD
“How can we reimagine PD to be a space for teachers to (re)discover their agency and find purpose in their work? By organizing PD in accordance with the tenets of principled resistance, schools and districts can help teachers feel in charge of their own development and confident to act in service of their educational convictions.”
Is Social Media Actually To Blame For Today’s Mental Health Crisis?
Is More Autonomy The Cure For Student Mental Health Issues?
“Giving Retakes Their Best Chance To Improve Learning”
“To successfully implement reassessment options, educators must have in-depth knowledge of the theory and research that justifies the reassessment process, along with clear notions of the elements that must be in place to ensure it works.”
Every Discipline Teaches Its Own Literacy
Why Content Knowledge Matters When Reading
“Decades ago, studies conducted by reading researchers demonstrated the importance of knowledge to comprehension, as Hugh Catts (2021–2022) has noted. Knowledge, they found, helps readers supply information that authors inevitably leave out—in other words, it helps readers make inferences; take in, analyze, and retain new information; and make predictions. Having knowledge about a topic also […]
“Digital Storytelling” As Authentic, Uncheatable Assessments
“Digital storytelling projects—like those I’ve used with my students—can help teachers connect the curriculum to their communities, and help students make connections across disciplines and to their own lives. At a time when artificial intelligence has everyone wondering about the future of writing instruction, digital storytelling projects like those outlined here and discussed in my […]
Draftback: How To Use Google Docs To See Student Writing Processes
“Draftback does a few helpful things for Google Docs. Most importantly, it turns a document’s revision history—which we normally have to click through piecemeal—into a video that can be played at controllable speeds. When we watch it, we can actually see a student’s every keystroke on a document. Draftback also provides a detailed breakdown of […]