Nancy Frey's Blog, page 10
December 7, 2023
Be a Lamp, Not a Mirror: Five Ways to Keep Your Light Shining
Negative talk and news seems to be everywhere we turn. It’s so easy to just agree with the people around us who are complaining. After all, there is a lot of suffering going on in our world. I notice that when I piggyback on another […]
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December 4, 2023
Keeping the Conversation Going in Science Class
This is what you’ve been waiting for. You spent hours–OK, if we are honest, days–planning the perfect lesson. It is fueled by an engaging phenomenon and you are quite sure that your students will not be able to contain their curiosity. You anticipate a fountain […]
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5 Tips for Bringing Radical Love Into Your Classroom
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. – Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998) When you think of a classroom, does love come to your mind? Classrooms are […]
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November 30, 2023
How to Keep Your Standards-Based Report Card Simple and Family Friendly
School leaders engaged in grading reforms all struggle with revising the report card. They recognize that their current report card offers little useful information to parents and families about students’ performance in school, and want to provide a better, more comprehensive, and more informative reporting […]
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November 27, 2023
#CorwinTalks: Advice for Building and Maintaining a Professional Learning Practice
Understand the Elements of Professional Learning By James B. Short and Stephanie Hirsh Teachers ask for basically one thing when it comes to professional learning. Provide me with support to help my students today and tomorrow. The Elements of curriculum-based professional learning answer their request. […]
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November 20, 2023
Asking the Right Questions to Promote Student Learning
In my early career as a science teacher, I knew the kinds of questions that I wanted students to answer: those questions would require thinking, synthesis of ideas, and the application of those ideas. An obvious place for questions like these was in the follow […]
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November 16, 2023
An Author, an Inspiration, and Most Importantly, a Friend
Corwin author and teacher leader Barry Gilmore passed away in 2019 at the age of 50, while he was working on his latest passion project, a new book. His editor and co-author powered through their grief to honor his legacy and complete the project. That […]
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November 6, 2023
#CorwinTalks: Reimagining How We Approach Assessment
Classroom Based Formative Assessment – Assessing as you teach, it’s what you do! By Francis (Skip) Fennell, Beth McCord Kobett, Jonathan A. Wray Assessing student learning is an important responsibility for all schools and teachers. At the classroom level, day-to-day involvement with assessment includes consideration […]
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October 24, 2023
Powered by Picture Books
It’s a problem as old as teaching itself: “What is a good story for my students to read and discuss?” There are tried and true stories out there, but, when we are looking for something fresh, we teachers don’t want to comb through websites and […]
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October 18, 2023
Creating the Conditions for Healing – What Leaders Can Do Now
Promoting Wellness and Mental Health Through the “Three I’s” Educators are under increasing pressure in the post-COVID world to show performance gains The threat of violence in schools at any time is real. Controversies about books and curriculum strain the fragile bonds of the community, […]
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