The Paradox of Right the First Time: Transform Assessment Practices to Reflect Growth
Those of us experimenting with how we accurately measure student skills and abilities hit a wonderful fork…
District Transformation in Danville
I’m itching to go to Danville, Kentucky after listening to Superintendent Carmen Coleman on the webinar How…
Light at the End of the Tunnel
After finishing a round of site visits in New Hampshire and Colorado I had come to the…
A Tide of Understanding
Lately, I have been pondering how to help educators better visualize a progression of learning targets while…
New research on affective and motivational factors of learning in online mathematics courses
The role of motivation in student success in online courses is clear. Highly motivated students perform better…
Chewing on Learning Progressions: Some Food For Thought
One of the big pushes in our district (and many others throughout Maine) is customized learning: students…
Kansas: High quality online learning increases equity in education
(Testimony provided to the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee by iNACOL colleague Maria Worthen on April…
Learning My Lesson
I had asked my ninth grade students to write a “last” chapter to the novel Seedfolks by…
Gateways, Not Grades
This is the second of a two-part series on Making Community Connections Charter School. Click here for…
Igniting Learning at the Making Community Connections Charter School
This is the first of a two-part series about Making Community Connections Charter School. Click here for…