Let’s start with a simple question: Are YOUR students spending any of their free time watching videos on YouTube? Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash Here’s the answer: Most likely. While there is little direct statistical evidence of YouTube use by elementary-aged children, 81 percent of parents of
Are you ready for a simple truth: NOTHING that you are doing in your school — not your 1:1 technology initiative, not your focus on higher order thinking or complex text, not your project-based learning or your Genius Hours — is more important than the
Blogger’s note: I’m going to start a new series here on the Radical called “Why This? Why Now? Why Bother?” The purpose of the series is to give some rationale for major projects, ideas, or initiatives in education that I really believe in. Hope you
Recently, I had a long conversation with a client who is working to support several professional learning teams in a middle school. One of the questions that she asked was, “What’s the best way for me to know how to move each of the teams
One of my closest professional friends is assessment expert Chris Jakicic. Recently, Chris wrote an interesting bit for the Solution Tree Blog that I think is worth checking out. In it, Chris argues that common formative assessments only become powerful when learning teams deliberately track
