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#BloggingAtoZ — SBG
My post for today is a little bit of a cheat. I’d like to talk a little bit about standards-based grading (SBG). If you’re not familiar with SBG, it’s essentially a way of assessing student learning that focus on measuring … Continue reading
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Tagged A to Z Challenge, education, SBG, SBL, standards based grading, standards based learning
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I Earned This
I got an email this morning from TRS (Teachers’ Retirement System). Here is what it says: “In recent weeks, a new website identifying 30,000 TRS members as a “$100,000+ Salary & Pension Club” has been circulated via social media and … Continue reading
E is for Education
It seems only natural to write about education considering I have been a teacher for almost 30 years. I graduated from college in December of 1989 and in January 1990, I took my first official teaching job. I took on … Continue reading
Blogging A to Z — Kids
Today’s letter is the letter K in the Blogging A to Z Challenge, and I thought I’d write about kids. Not my own, because I have singular — KID. But now that I think about it, maybe I do mean … Continue reading
It’s All in the Spin
Saw this on Twitter this morning. A parent was arrested for disorderly conduct at a school board meeting where he was protesting a book his daughter was reading. Let me get this out of the way first — I think … Continue reading
Blogging A to Z — H: Homework
One of the hottest topics debated in education is homework. How much, if any at all? What kind? How should it be graded, if at all? For what it’s worth (and lately, I get the feeling that what teachers think … Continue reading
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