Happy Holidays from Corwin!
Corwin Connect will be taking a break for the holidays. We'll be back on January 5, 2015 with more posts from our authors and staff, and to celebrate Corwin's 25th Anniversary! Best wishes!
Preparing for a Renaissance in Assessment
In Preparing for a Renaissance in Assessment, Sir Michael Barber (Deliverology 101 and Deliverology in Practice, forthcoming) and Peter Hill discuss the current state of assessment, and how new technologies such as adaptive learning, automated marking, and intelligent learning systems can be used to move education from a
Risk-Taking is Essential for Professional Learning
You can view the original post here. Risk-taking is the make-or-break ingredient of effective professional learning. Without it, we are just going through the motions of “doing professional learning.” We gather ideas and strategies, but none of these impact student learning until we change our teaching in very
Winter EdTech Sale: 15% Off All Corwin EdTech Titles!
Share the power of technology this holiday season! Get 15% off all of Corwin's Technology titles with discount code N14C69 on Corwin.com until January 31, 2015. Browse all of our Corwin EdTech books, including new releases like: The Corwin Connected Educators Series Time for Learning Making School a Game Worth Playing Digital Leadership The
Cooling Off the Perspiring Student—Actions to Increase the Odds!
Part 4 in an 8 part series. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In our last installment (Identifying the Perspiring Student), we examined Dr. Russ Quaglia and Dr. Michael Corso’s quadrant of their Student Aspirations FrameworkTM where students were demonstrating high effort or hard
From Consuming to Producing: The Hour of Code
Contributed by Spike C. Cook and Alicia Mackall During the week of December 8-14, 2014, schools across the globe will be participating in the Hour of Code as a way to draw awareness to the importance of coding. Hour of Code began as a way
7 Ways to Build Trust and Buy-In for Observation-Based Professional Learning
You can view the original post here. “There is no more powerful way of improving on the job than by observing others and having others observe us.” —Roland Barth (2006) Any form of professional learning that engages teachers in observing a live lesson together calls for a
Identifying the Perspiring Student
Part 3 in an 8 part series. Read Part 1: Identifying the Hibernating Student and Part 2: Waking Up the Hibernating Student Are your students overly (and at times unnecessarily) perspiring? Are they working hard but aimlessly? Are they trying to cram knowledge into the frontal
Observe Together to Deepen Professional Learning
This article was originally posted on TonyaSinger.com Collaboration can be shallow or deep, a way to maintain business as usual, or a driver for collective change. To go deep together with the collective trust and courage essential for asking and acting on tough questions, we need