Leadership
9 Tips for Making Virtual Professional Learning Meaningful
Your professional learning plan for this school year is like no other before it. With requirements for physical distancing in place for the foreseeable future, school organizations have had to pivot in order to deliver the professional learning experiences teachers need to support their efforts, whether in face-to-face, hybrid, simultaneous,
Visible Learning
Feedback Without Clarity is Meaningless…At Best
“Students need to know their learning target— the specific skill they’re supposed to learn— or else ‘feedback’ is just someone telling them what to do.”
How Group Coaching Can Build Collective Teacher Efficacy
Building collective efficacy is a hot topic in educational circles as a result of John Hattie’s meta-analysis of what works best in education. While many
How to Stop Cognitive Biases from Undermining Your Impact
Researchers must treat their findings with ruthless objectivity to avoid dreaded “cargo cults.” And educators should consider doing the same. Back in 1960, the great British
Teaching Methods
Help Students Reveal Their Thought Processes in the Math Classroom
His mohawk flopped side to side as he pointed rapidly at his scrawling mathematics work. My 6th grader was having a hard time explaining his
Support Learners While in the Learning: Distributed Scaffolding
If front-end scaffolds are put in place to support learners prior to the start of instruction, how do we support learners while they are deep
Seven Tips for Developing Better Problem Solvers
Thinking is hard. Teaching students to think is really hard! Modern mathematics standards and curriculum often put an emphasis on mathematical problem solving—frequently described as
