I haven’t written about all of the learning walks, but they are currently my favorite part of my job. Looking in classrooms with a classroom formative assessment perspective sheds a light on the interaction between teacher and students that leads to great discussions about what we observe in classrooms. It is more obvious to me [...]
I love House. I started watching it because I was fascinated to see Hugh Laurie, who plays Dr. House, playing the lead on an American drama series. He is English and I’ve always thought of him as a comedian. He had a partner in comedy, Stephen Fry, and they had their own [...]
We started a blog for the people going through the classroom formative assessment training. In case you haven’t yet had your fix of where we’re going with this as a district, check it out at http://classroomformativeassessment.edublogs.org/ I’m particularly proud of the design.
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A question came up during-or as a result of-the first day of the Classroom Formative Assessment training about the relationship between classroom formative assessment and the 27J Instructional Model. This question made me think – not about what that relationship is, because I’m very clear on that, but about whether I’ve been clear [...]
I read an article over the winter break that used the expression format v. function to express the distinction between what something looks like and what it is intended to do. Allowing the former to signify the latter may not be defensible. I immediately started using the expression to talk about an issue that was [...]
We’re running a parallel set of training dates to the big training we did last week (or two weeks ago? quam tempus fugit!). Two schools wanted to train their entire leadership teams, and we didn’t have enough room for them in the big training, so running a parallel training allowed us to provide that to [...]
I really like to cook, but I don’t bake very often. But I made sacher torte this weekend. I know, it sounds fancy. My sister gave me a chocolate cookbook for Christmas, and I found the recipe when I was looking through the book with my son, Andrew. Much easier to make than the name [...]
