I feel the need to be honest with you, ISB. I am a content and language objective convert. I will admit that when I was first told that we would write daily content and language objectives for math I was compliant but skeptical and quietly resistant. I looked for shortcuts, kept the same generic objectives […]
“My daughter has written memoirs every year for the past 7 years!” Matt Glover exclaimed to teachers the other day. “She’s so sick of this genre! And that’s not even the worst part! The worst part is, there isn’t a single adult in her school who knows this fact. There were no intentional decisions that this […]
To order Captain Awesome or to not order Captain Awesome? Anyone who has merely brushed by me in the past two weeks can’t help but hear me obsess over the book order that the elementary school is submitting to support the adoption of reading workshop next year. We are committed to finding high-interest literature written at an accessible level. In short, we want books that […]
“In differentiated classrooms, teachers ensure that students compete against themselves as they grow and develop more then they compete against one another, always moving toward-and often beyond- designated content goals” – Carol Ann Tomlinson “The Differentiated Classroom” The word differentiation can be heard in schools and educational conferences around the world. It sounds like […]