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Behavior Instruction
You would never make a student who struggles with reading clip down or lose a ticket if they didn’t read something correctly. It doesn’t make any sense. …
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In Case of a Fog Delay
Friday night, I took my children to a baseball game. It was a beautiful night for a game. Warm. Calm. Clear. 70 degrees, with a nice, cool breeze coming…
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PD Checklists
If professional development is focused more on the how than the why than it’s very likely that checking off the checklist that outlines the how will be seen by…
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A Chorus of Can’t and Won’t
What are our students capable of? I would argue that we will never know unless we try. I used to work with a colleague who taught in a…
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Point at the Process
When a student is not doing his work teachers, generally speaking, say one of two things. They will say to themselves, “He’s not doing his work!” or “This…
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Questions We Should Be Asking Students
For many years, we have asked students small questions. Detail questions. Fact questions. Who? What? Where? When? We must ask big questions of students. Some of our questions…
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Teaching Tasks
If we teach things without a clear why, what we are essentially doing is teaching tasks. For instance, if we believe we are teaching opinion writing to learn…
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Host a Jam Session
At #4OCF, we have long been proponents of using professional learning and meeting time to do relevant, meaningful, and productive work. Try hosting a Jam Session during your…
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Sharing Fuels Sharing
It's simple. Sharing fuels sharing. The more my students share, the more my students want to share. The more my students share the more my students learn, think…