In Service

Yesterday, I led a Cooperative Learning workshop with a group of second year teachers. I’ve presented on this topic, in this district, several times before–and it was one of my favorite kind of days.
The group was small–there were seven teachers, total. And they were a diverse group: music teachers, speech pathologists, special education teachers, and [...]

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One of the districts that I’ve been working with for less than a year has built a variety of grade-level common formative assessments that they plan to begin using this fall. Getting to this point has been a long, winding road. Uphill. Both ways. In the dark. Through several feet of snow. Without proper footwear. And in the [...]

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Many of the school districts that I am working with this year have identified vocabulary development as an area in need of attention. Instructional practices are lagging behind what current research suggests might work best to help our students build deeper understandings about words.
Digging into this issue quickly leads most teachers to the realization that [...]

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