[video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://corwin-connect.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Corwin-Blog-Video.mp4"][/video] Right now, in schools around the world, teachers are being observed by administrators, coaches, and peers. They are provided time to talk about the lesson and reflect on their practice in these feedback sessions. Most of these conversations will begin with the
Last month we wrestled with the sentence starter, “If I could open my own school, I would…”. Read that blog post here. As I let my imagination run wild, I was led to an interesting finding in the research: what happens inside of the school matters more than the school type (see Hattie & Zierer,
This is the number one question teachers have been asking me for the past three decades. You want to be able to differentiate and teach kids in small-group time, but how do you make sure the rest of the class is practicing the skills you’ve
You are amazing, a superhero. Every day you get up to make a difference, and every day you do. In some way, every day, you are a teacher and a learner–maybe a few minutes ago or yesterday, or it will happen after you finish reading. You have
It’s Valentine’s Day and your teacher-heart could use some filling. Mid-year assessments, snow days, endless sniffles, and countless tissue boxes… it may be time to treat yourself (or a teacher you love!) to something that can make your life easier: On-Your-Feet Guides from the Corwin Classroom team. Here are
I now know that it’s all about students’ learning and now I know a plethora of ways to make sure that every lesson my students have learned something - whether it be before the lesson, during the lesson or after the lesson. And I never would have
It is one of the fundamental laws of organizational change that innovation is spurred by “networked connectivity,” the degree to which individuals and groups are connected to others. And, the degree to which innovation percolates across an organization is often a function of how much
Have you read part I? You can check out Why We Need to Keep it Real with PBL here. The idea behind my two books on project-based learning, Keep It Real With PBL, was to hunker down in the trenches with the teachers who tackle the
“A good beginning makes a good ending” goes the old English proverb. And likewise: “Work well begun is work half done.” The most effective teachers don’t take student engagement for granted. Yet in our work in classrooms, we see that not enough attention is paid to good beginnings; this lack