In Daniel Willingham‘s book, Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy, he explains: “‘Knowing’ doesn’t mean being able to understand an explanation; it means being able to explain to others.” True evidence of learning is having the ability to restate, coherently, what you “know.” We want to “evaluate … [Read more…]
What a week! As I mentioned in last week’s post, 25 FMCSD educators attended the Open Up Resources HIVE conference this past week. I’m bursting with pride and excitement about the impact that the HIVE conference had on so many of us… did I mention 25 of us attended??? Even more exciting – the impact … [Read more…]
The Science of Reading The Science of Reading is gaining momentum, thanks in large part to folks like APM journalist Emily Hanford. The funny thing is, it’s not a new concept; knowledge about the Science of Reading has been around for upwards of five decades. According to The Science of Reading, A Defining Movement, “The … [Read more…]
Change Change is hard. Change is (often, but not always), necessary. Change is uncomfortable. Change is inevitable. In the words of Jack Canfield, “Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it and learn how to … [Read more…]
Some Background Recently, I have been a part of many conversations with teacher teams expressing concern about over-assessing our students. At times, they feel as if the only thing they do is assess, without ever being able to actually teach. This is a valid concern and one that can be alleviated when we make use … [Read more…]