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Jul 15

My Two Cents on Standards

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Assessment, Ed News
July 15, 2012

Okay, so this is a rant. There, I’ve said it. I’ve just been so put off by all this common core (next generation in Science) standards stuff (I didn’t write what I was actually thinking), so I thought I’d put my thoughts here on my place to think things through and learn. What I hate …

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Dec 06

Formative Process

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
December 6, 2010

We read another excellent article at my teacher leader training, Next-Generation Assessment Systems: Are We Losing an Opportunity? by Margaret Heritage (this one is a pdf file). One thing I took away from the article is how easy it is to think we’re doing formative assessment when we’re not because of the word assessment. After …

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Dec 06

Inquiry for Teachers

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
December 6, 2010

At a teacher leader workshop we learned some valuable lessons about how to get the most out of our Professional Learning Community (PLC) work. One thing I noticed is that the type of deep thinking that is needed for PLC’s to do their job well is the type of discourse I see often from my …