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Street Corner Coaching: An Overview of How To Approach Assessment in Teaching
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Assessment can intimidate even the most seasoned educators. Teachers often express to me that they…
Read More »Some areas are K-12 teaching are harder to staff than others. Just ask any school principal you know. It’s really…
Read More »When you read and listen to enough presidential speeches about education, it becomes unsurprising that American presidents tend to frame…
Read More »The father of Scratch, MIT’s Mitch Resnik, offers this thoughtful talk on why it’s important to learn to code, how…
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Read More »I have re-watched this several times, always intrigued by Chomsky’s notion that what happens internally (within the mind) when one…
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Read More »I used to do a project with my 9th grade English students where they’d rap literary critiques of Chaucer’s Canterbury…
Read More »The more work I do at the intersection of education and technology, the more I…
Read More »Listen to this episode Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast series Revisionist History, where he looks at how two universities’ decisions to serve particular…
Read More »We don’t talk enough about nutrition in education. I don’t mean nutrition curricula, which is also important. I mean we…
Read More »I once mused to a friend that if policymakers did nothing other than improve the quality of food served to…
Read More »How Japanese schools approach lunch is eye-opening, especially as many conversations about public education are reduced to narrowly defined academics.…
Read More »Charter schools received much criticism over the last several years–most recently by John Oliver in a viral segment–as the Obama…
Read More »I loved hearing Howard Gardner describe the limits of assessments, a kind warning to parents and the public to let…
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