Apr 12
In my last post I shared learnings and takeaways from some Common Core ELA trainings I’ve attended, specifically implications around the first shift of the common core that states that our students need to be reading complex texts. In this post I’m going share my learning about CCSS-ELA Shift 2. Common Core Shift 2 states …
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Feb 10
I feel like a real blogger now! Sure I started this WordPress blog with my first post on July 2006 (that’s coming up on 10 years!) but it wasn’t until a few years later that I started blogging for an audience beyond my students and their parents. Blogging on my own, for my own reflection …
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Dec 10
This past May and just recently in November I was fortunate to be able to present a session at two wonderful leadership conferences for newly certified National Board Certified Teachers or NBCTs. Washington state’s Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession or CSTP invited me to show some of the ways that I was sharing what …
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Jun 13
At our final OMSP leadership meeting we read a little bit of W. James Popham’s book Transformative Assessment in Action: An Inside Look at Applying the Process to discuss. We first came up with our own definitions of formative assessment. I thought my team did pretty well. I mean, here we all are, teacher leaders …
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Jul 12
From a few of the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) Learning Community Forums on the “Four Hats of Leadership†based on The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups by Garmston and Wellman we learned about the following: •Facilitating (directs processes, maintains focus, supports group dialogue, planning, decision-making, or problem-solving) •Presenting (extend …
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