When adversity hits you and your team have a choice. You can run away from each other or run towards each other. You can fight against each other or fight for each other. You can be apathetic and say “who cares” or decide to care more.
Help students focus on learning rather than grades in 5 ways: 1) adjust language 2) delay the grade 3) lower the stakes 4) provide retakes 5) allow self-grading. What works for your students? #grading#assessment#learning https://t.co/xGZlnx60Fg
We call someone leader not because they are in charge but because they have the courage to go first. To risk first. To trust first. First into the unknown.
Professional development (PD) is typically characterized by one and done or drive-by events. Professional learning, on the other hand, has a longitudinal focus consisting of job-embedded support and on-going feedback resulting in lasting change. There is a big difference.
Digital tools will do exactly what they are designed to do. That’s not innovative. What is, though, is how teachers use them in pedagogically sound ways to empower all kids to learn.