I visited four schools on Friday, and enjoyed myself very much. I’m sorry only that I couldn’t visit every school.
I started the day at North, which is in a good place, having improved greatly in their growth scores and made AYP. They are working on consolidating all their good work, and I really wanted to [...]
Motivation occupies much of my thoughts. I mean motivation as a topic, not my own personal motivation, which is boundless, in case you were wondering.
I find this topic fascinating, because motivation is powerfully linked to classroom formative assessment. And yet, many teachers’ beliefs about motivation are contrary to the relationship as I understand it to work. [...]
Have you missed me? It’s been a little busy, but even so I’m embarrassed that it’s been a month since I added anything to this blog. It’s not like I haven’t been working. In fact, you can view one fruit of my labor: the Global End Academic Monitoring Report. This will tell you a great [...]
