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Giant Hershey Bar

In response to this post by Shelly Terell (@shellterrell), Philly Teacher Mary Beth Hertz (@mbteach) shared her own reflections on lessons learned from great educators and then  tagged me to do the same.  Here goes (with all due apologies to Alan Moore, who, along with Anne Carson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, and Vladimir Nabokov, taught [...]

Posted 11 December 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

SBAR.

Assessment reform is crucial to education reform. Junot Diaz spoke at NCTE last night about the work we have to do to move away from the “journey of approval” (make the grade or face punishment) to the “journey of discovery,” wherein meaningful reading, learning, and heuristic mistake-making occur. Until an American administration takes [...]

Posted 20 November 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Standard is Authenticity

Over at Twitter recently, @mctownsley pointed toward an earlier post at Edumacation about the tension between standards-based assessment and traditional grading.

Assessments, like any kind of data-based research, can be used by many people in many different ways.

One teacher might pump her fist in the air after seeing that 95% of her students passed this year’s reading [...]

Posted 09 August 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,