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The EZ Way Out
On my last day of student teaching, my students and cooperating teacher presented me with a gift basket of everything I would need to be a teacher. I was…
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Shortsighted: The State of Testing in 2022
We would all like to believe that education ideas are not shortsighted. Unfortunately, we often see too many plans in schools that just don’t make any sense when aligned…
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What Didn’t You Learn Today?
What did you learn today? It’s a question we often ask to end a lesson. It’s meant as a prompt for reflection. It’s used as a bridge to the…
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Agile Approach
Agile can be defined in one of two ways: able to move quickly and easily.relating to or denoting a method of project management, used especially for software development, that…
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Double Your Efforts
Several years ago, I was completing an observation with a Music Teacher. I’m no expert on music instruction, but based on my experience with instruction and pedagogy, I could…
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Four Questions for the Future of Education
What are we "preparing" kids for? Ask any teacher what they are preparing students for and you will get a variety of answers. “I’m preparing them for middle school.”…
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Grade Levels?
Maybe it’s time that we abandoned the notion that grade levels should be used as measures of growth. We use a term like below-level to determine that a child…
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Measuring Smiles
#4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don’t worry, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. What if, when a principal…
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(Grading) Crime & Punishment
I’ve heard many districts say: “Grading should not be punitive during remote learning.” Does this mean that grading is punitive when students are normally in school? If so, maybe…