The Reflective Educator

While I’ve had some time off from work, I’ve been designing curriculum.

At Teach Meet Hong Kong, I did a quick 5-minute presentation on using exemplars of student work to help learners understand success criteria.

A few years ago when I worked for New Visions for Public Schools, we created an open-source curriculum to support teachers with understanding and implementing some of the instructional and curriculum shifts the Common Core standards required. 8 years late…

Which assessment results are better for classroom instruction?

If I’m only allowed to pick one thing in order to improve instruction at a school, I’d start with formative assessment.

Fawn Nguyen recently updated her terrific Visual Patterns website and mentioned how she used AI to help her rebuild the site.

There are three different ways the word learning is used, and all of them are important.

Our current “system” of education is actually hodgepodge of different competing organizations layered on top of each other.

Now that I’ve been coaching math teachers again, I have been in a lot more classrooms and doing classroom observations again.

School culture trumps great teaching, or it can.

Every school I’ve worked at uses a teacher evaluation system where the primary goal is to determine if whether the teachers are doing a good job or not.

How can we inspire educators to do the challenging work that is required to develop and extend their practice?

“I learn something and then we are tested on it, and I know I never to know it again, so I immediately forget it.”