Ok… I’ve fallen off the “one blog post a week” bandwagon but hope to jump back on this weekend! In the meantime, I’ve had several folks ask for these so I thought would go ahead and post them. These were definitely a collaborative effort between several teachers at my school over several years (including Kate …
Category: SBG
Aug 22
First Three Days
Our pre-week activities ended this Tuesday and kids came back on Wednesday! Yes, finally kids on Wednesday! We run a mixed schedule of blocks and singles so this week we came back to two blocks with a singleton day on Friday. The blocks allow us to run an “advisory” of sorts that we call “Black …
Aug 17
Once a week blog…
So I recently blogged… mainly because my head was too full of things I couldn’t sort out but also because Annie Fetter (@MFAnnie) pushed me a little. Then, without thinking about it much, I said – OUT LOUD on twitter – that I was going to blog once a week. What was I thinking? So… …
Aug 05
Keep, Change, Start and Stop – Pondering the beginning of a new year
Seems I only post once a year these days! At any rate… here’s where my mind is going right now. Hoping that writing it down will help my mind focus a bit more! I am quite anxious for thoughts, comments and ideas – so please feel free!! You all are my PLC! I’m depending …
Jul 04
SBG – reflections, thoughts and questions
Full disclosure – this is a long post (even though I rewrote it to try to make it shorter!) Much of it is me thinking out loud with some questions/thoughts at the end. Standards Based Grading as its looked for me so far…. Year 1 – Used in my Algebra 1 class. The learning targets …