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Group Quiz Results!
Backstory: I read a blog post about 2-stage quizzes and wanted to work them in in my standards-based grading system I posted about the idea and asked for help I got helpful responses to my question!...
View ArticleDoin’ time
The longer I teach, the more important I perceive each day to be. This puts me at direct odds with my students, most of whom spend their entire school day trying to kill the clock in any remotely...
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Re-establishing my voice
When I first started this blog, I struggled to find my voice. My writing was awkward and alternated between self-consciously verbose and too slangy. After a while, I got a good flow going and really...
View ArticleMake time for class meetings
Today my classes held their first class meetings of the year. What do I mean by class meetings? All of my students (1oth and 11th graders) and me seated in a circle talking about our class. I am now...
View ArticleMake time for instructional agility
Last week I gave a quiz about natural selection and the results were not good. The mean grade for the quiz was a D/ D+. At that point, I had a couple of options, right? I could have moved on and said,...
View ArticleMake time for one-on-one conversations
This is one of those that I must constantly remind myself about! Today, my students were working mostly independently on a research project. I spent the entire class period rotating between my...
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Make time for… Getting Socratic
“I cannot teach anyone anything; I can only make them think.” ~ Socrates Watch out! I’m ’bout to get all Socratic up in this classroom! One of my goals for this school year is to improve and expand my...
View ArticleCommencement Day
Blue Scholars are one of the best music groups to arrive on my musical consciousness in recent years. Their song, “Commencement Day” actually got a teacher placed on administrative leave in Spokane, WA...
View ArticleThe curse of the standardized test
I’m not enjoying teaching as much as I once did. Don’t get me wrong, I still love working with young people. I still think my job is valuable and important. Unfortunately, the testing mandate has...
View ArticleYou can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
The title of this post is a quote from Mark Twain and truer words were never spoken. Speaking scientifically, there is more truth to this statement than most of us realize or choose to believe....
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