In this introduction to Ten Assessment Literacy Goals for School Leaders, the authors discuss the current state of assessment in schools today and preview their ten assessment literacy goals to be expanded upon in further chapters.
Listen to Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls and their teachers discuss classroom experiences.
From hybrid learning to missed proms and graduation ceremonies. Here's some advice for parents to help their teens through the pandemic. Featuring Teaching, Learning, and Trauma authors Brooke O'Drobinak and Beth Kelley on 9news.com.
We create what we love. Read this chapter opener from Teaching With Light by Carol Radford for a look at how dreams can become realities, if we choose the actions that align with our skills and gifts.
Presented by Voyager Sopris. Horacio Sanchez discusses how poverty is the single most significant event impacting education today. The brain transformations resulting from poverty speak to the heart of the academic and behavioral issues schools seek to overcome. The neuroscience of poverty provides a clear picture of why academic and behavioral problems occur in relation to poverty and how to design a more precise response to best address the issues.
"Girls’ lives are hard and, let’s face it, adults don’t really understand what girls are going through. Sure, we might know what it’s like to be a teenager, to struggle with academic or family issues, or to deal with complicated friendships or relationships. But we don’t know what it is like to be a girl today—trying to figure herself out, getting ridiculed and judged on social media, constantly comparing herself to others, never quite feeling good enough, and so afraid to fail that she is plagued with stress and anxiety on a daily basis." Read the full post on Corwin Connect.
Please enjoy this complimentary excerpt on The Purpose of this Playbook. You’ll discover an overview of the Playbook modules and why this work is essential to your PLC+s.
In this excerpt from The Poverty Problem, discover how a strange sequence of events and one individual’s
arbitrary decision shaped the nation’s thinking and behavior toward poverty.
"Teachers are learning a lot this year, and keeping a portfolio will help when it’s time to reflect on that learning." Read the full article by Monica Burns, author of #FormativeTech, on Edutopia.
"The popular lesson framework can help keep remote teaching manageable while encouraging students to develop self-reliance." Read the full article by Paul Emerich France, author of Humanizing Distance Learning, on Edutopia.
"The need to partner with caregivers is even more important now with so many students learning at home." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.
"Young people dealing with the effects of the pandemic can be encouraged through lessons that inspire resilience." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.