We were sitting together, teachers gathered around student work from a newly designed performance assessment. The task asked students to engage in a deep study of character in literature. Instead of a single written response, students were given multiple pathways to show their thinking through a multimedia performance assessment. Students could write, speak, design, create, …
At the beginning of the week, I was driving into work thinking about my long to-do list. If you work in education and are reading this, you know exactly what I mean. I was thinking about projects that matter and need to be lifted the right way. Communications that needed to go out so people …
I’ve been sitting with a question from George Couros’ new book, Forward, Together: “After all, isn’t true growth measured by our ability to look back on who we were and appreciate how far we’ve come?” What I keep returning to is not the looking back, but how that pause creates space for what comes next. …
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