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As teachers, we often spend hours grading papers and tests, only to have our students look at the grade and then toss the paper in the wastebasket. While we must evaluate our students’ work, we also need to provide corrective feedback and develop resources and opportunities for our students to think about their work and [...]
A recent editorial in the New York Times by Chester E. Finn, Jr., “Young, Gifted, and Neglected,” has reinvigorated a century-old antagonism in the education community: how best to serve our gifted and talented students. (In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll note that I spent most of my 21 years as a public school [...]
I attended the NWEA Fusion Conference in Portland, Oregon this past week, and the first observation I can make is that summer in Portland is quite pleasant, especially when we were experiencing 100+ degree temperatures at home in Austin. Once the novelty of great weather wore off, I was treated to some of the best [...]
Compass Learning recently partnered with WeAreTeachers to ask educators: “How do you use assessment data to build effective lesson plans?” Over 160 educators responded, and we awarded five teachers with the following prizes: $500 and an iPod Touch with video capacity. Here are some of our favorite responses: Jen Rowe told us she uses art [...]
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