As I work on this year’s curriculum map, I’m trying to set up a learning space bounded by the minimum number of teacher-imposed, useful constraints necessary to promote student-directed democracy, community, and learning.
My map this year will look more course-specific than last year’s meta-map, which I think is still a useful model for project-based work. [...]
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Posted 02 July 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 20 November 2009
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Also tagged: Education reform, Edumacation, Florida, Junot Diaz, Kevin Hurt, Matt Townsley, MeTa Musings, NBCT, NCTE, Polk County, Rick Stiggins, Rick Wormeli, Robert Marzano, SBAR, Standards, Standards-based, W. James Popham
