Reflecting On The Spring, Preparing For The Fall
Reflecting On The Spring It has been a while since I have written. When spring arrived this year, as a high school English teacher, my …
Stories of Mason teachers and students owning their learning experience like never before.
Reflecting On The Spring It has been a while since I have written. When spring arrived this year, as a high school English teacher, my …
In a contemporary analysis unit I recently designed, students were asked to analyze two, opposing texts on a debatable topic and then develop their own …
While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson …
The Metaphor: From the Learning Space to the Planning Space As I was teaching the other day, class had ended and my classroom was a …
PL is really about finding ways to allow the learning to be more student-driven and to transfer ownership of the learning.The question I find that …
In “What Role Does Personalization Play in College and Career Readiness?” Julia Osteen includes Ed Hidalgo’s proposal that students should graduate with a “mission of …
One thing I tried: We began unit 3 this week and students are reading a book they’ve chosen based on our unit’s theme from a list that we …
When I was twenty years old, I was standing in Benton Hall at Miami University, talking with my education professor after our 7 p.m. night …
One thing I tried: In our summer PL training we did a design challenge, and I loved the idea because it’s hands-on exploratory learning that forces …
One thing I tried: For Unit 2 I took a series of steps to make the infrastructure more student-driven: students co-created the unit topic, the essential questions, …