From the archive
Teaching and Learning
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Don’t Wait for the Postmortem to See if You’re Sick
“Educators have long complained that end-of-year, “summative” assessments are not useful because the results are not available until fall when their students have moved on to the next grade.” (Is…
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Function and Agency
I spent a year digging deeply into the concept of student agency with teacher teams. We tried to define what agency looked like for a particular grade level, and then…
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Talking to Colleagues about Talking to Strangers
My daughter Alex gets a quirky partial smile on her face when she’s highly anxious or nervous. I worried that this would work against her when she was in Navy…
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How May I Be of Service
As some of you know, I took a career break this summer. My first break from working since I was 14 1/2 years old. It was both terrifying and exhilarating.…
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Teens Doing Whatever It Takes to Draw Attention to Human Trafficking
Yesterday I watched as teens came together to use their design thinking and entrepreneurial skills to tackle the subject of human trafficking, which is prevalent in San Diego. They came…