Amplify Student Writing: Rethinking Critical Responses to Literature
This is a guest post from Ms Madeline Raynolds, Graded High School English Department Head. Together with her English 10 teacher team, she …
Owners of their Learning: Students Proud to Share ePortfolios
This is a cross-post from Students Proud to Share ePortfolios on Innovate 2015 at Graded School. During Innovate 2015 showcase time, a group of …
CSI Visible Thinking Routine for PHE
In 6th Grade PHE, Ms Arcenas‘ students were asked to use the CSI (Color, Symbol, Image) Visible Thinking Routine to show their …
Get All On Board with ePortfolios for Visible Learning
In our school we have been discussing a rationale for doing online portfolios with our students and the big question has been …
ePortfolio Development Spirals
Today we had a great meeting where two High School teachers who have been exploring ePortfolios presented their experience. Other teachers in …
A control shift: Students in charge of their learning progress
This week I had the most interesting conversations with a teacher who had a breakthrough experience. This is a High School Visual …
Are we all ready to use cellphones for learning?
The discussion on whether to ban or embrace cellphones has been going on for a while. The ISTE article “Taming the Chaos” …