Late last year, I wrote a post titled A Pretty Darn Good Lesson — If I Say So Myself :). In it, I described, and included links to student examples, of how our Intermediate English students “wrote about how they were going...
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Last year, two very talented educators — Ted Appel, the extraordinary principal we have at...
Read MoreAt the end of each year, I take some time to reflect on what my most memorable teaching moments might have been, and invite readers to share their own. I hope you’ll leave your thoughts in the comments section of this...
Read MoreI’m generally not a big fan of rubrics. I think they tend to take too much time for me to create; having students co-create them is obviously much better, but doing that takes even more time; that often students...
Read MoreLast month, I wrote a post titled Here’s What I’m Doing For My Class Final Exam. It shared my tentative plan for having students compare an essay they wrote at the beginning of the year with one they wrote in May — using a...
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