Take a ‘Meta-Moment’: Step Back and Think
Based on Metacognition: The Neglected Skill Set for Empowering Students As I am writing this,
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What Works: Continuous Assessment and Interval Grading
In our recent publication, Beyond the Grade, our primary goal was to highlight practices proven
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Ambitious Instruction, Part II: What about Ambitious Learning?
Ambitious Instruction, my new book, has a relatively straightforward (phew) definition of rigor: there is
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Are You Asking Questions, or Teaching Inquiry?
Asking questions—good questions—is, arguably, the basis for a curious, passionate classroom. There is no way
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What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Ambitious Instruction’, Part I
“Ambitious Instruction,” the title of my newest book, is not a buzzword. The education world
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