As I have grown in my chosen profession I have learned to regularly ask my students about their experience in my classroom, providing them a chance to reflect on what they have learned and the process of learning. We are about a month and a half into the 2018-2019, so this week seemed like a …
Tag: Feedback
Parkinson’s Research and Fake News
Over the next several weeks, I am going to share recent Capstone Project work from my Lights Academy seniors. These projects are the culmination effort of their Lights Academy work, where they have chosen a question to research and dug deep into the analog, digital, and human resources that can help answer their query. I am proud …
Dealing With Inevitable Negative Feedback
As most of you who follow this blog know, I really appreciate the work of George Couros. He never ceases to get me thinking about education in new ways and his transparency about his own education challenges is refreshing. In his recent post Keep Your Head Up and Keep Creating, he addressed the challenge of …
Students, Educators, and Sleep (Part Three and Project Plan)
This is the third in a series of posts about Students, Educators and sleep. Below you may follow links to the first two posts on this topic: Students, Educators, and Sleep (Part One) Students, Educators, and Sleep (Part Two) The first post raised the idea that we need a larger conversation about this topic within …
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Tweet of the Day — 1.10.2018
Today's tweet of the day is a very important reminder from @alicekeeler about the elements of productive student feedback: What do you do to ensure that the feedback loop and its content has value for your student?
Tweet of the Day — 1.3.2018
Here is a Tweet of the Day for today: This tweet really caught my attention. This is a truth for me and I am sure most educators. Why is that? Is it fear? Are many fearful that this process will hurt them in some way? Has one been burned by this before? Is it a …
Allowing Others to Hone Our Thinking
I spent the past couple days at the Indiana District Lutheran Teachers Conference in Ft. Wayne, IN -- a gathering of Lutheran school teachers from across the state. It was an honor to have the opportunity to share educational thoughts and ideas with this group, in part because I spent 11 years in this district …
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