Nancy Frey's Blog, page 13
August 9, 2023
Visible Learning and Teaching Multilingual Learners: 5 Considerations
What can the Visible Learning database (www.visibiblelearningmetax.com) tell us about improving learning outcomes for students who are learning more than one language? With our colleagues John Hattie and Oscar Corrigan, we reviewed the evidence to answer this very question. There are a wide range of […]
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August 3, 2023
Rewriting the Story of Math: Tips for Changing Negative Math Mindsets
I’ve been a math teacher long enough to have lost count of the number of times someone has told me, “I’m bad at math.” Early on, I was shocked by the confessions and caught off-guard by the strength of the conviction with which these words […]
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June 15, 2023
ChatGPT Can Make a Teacher’s Life More Efficient– Here Are a Few Ideas!
My daughters introduced me to ChatGPT in December of 2022, shortly after its release. They laughed at my speechlessness watching it write letters from disgruntled employees, stories about losing a tooth for the first time, essays in favor of four-day work weeks, and explanations of […]
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June 8, 2023
Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning By Teaching Others
Amy Berry (2022) argues that when students are engaged, they drive their own learning. To do so, students must know their current level of performance and where they are going next in their learning journey. They also need to be taught a range of learning […]
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June 7, 2023
#CorwinTalks: Four Pathways, Three Tips, and Two Words for Current and Aspiring Education Leaders
Four Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders By Tim Cusack & Vince Bustamante There’s a tremendous need to attract more aspiring leaders into school leadership! The question is: how do we do this? When it comes to nurturing future educators, there are four key pathways […]
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Four Pathways, Three Tips, and Two Words for Current and Aspiring Education Leaders
Four Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders By Tim Cusack & Vince Bustamante There’s a tremendous need to attract more aspiring leaders into school leadership! The question is: how do we do this? When it comes to nurturing future educators, there are four key pathways […]
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June 6, 2023
Learning Words, Inside and Out
A lot goes into learning words and phrases, which are widely recognized as critical to understanding the content of what you are reading. Teaching vocabulary is a critical aspect of overall reading development and is an important strand in language comprehension. After all, while decoding […]
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June 5, 2023
Disrupting the Sound of Silence
The one doing the talking is the one doing the thinking. We want to see thinking classrooms where students take ownership, take risks, challenge one another, and create their own projects. Our goal is to see students experiencing this kind of agency in all schools […]
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June 1, 2023
Supporting Learners in Where They Go Next in Their Learning: Back-End Scaffolding
Scaffolding is an ongoing process of providing front-end, distributed, and back-end scaffolds. Along with peer scaffolding, these are part of our larger model of scaffolding. Source: How Scaffolding Works, Corwin. In this Corwin Connect blog, we take a quick look at back-end scaffolds but read […]
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May 31, 2023
Six Questions to Ask Before You Use AI
Nearly every educator I’ve spoken with this spring–in any context–has mentioned their angst with artificial intelligence. I’ll be honest: I’m more than a little uncomfortable, too. We’re all awestruck, for certain, but many of us are treading lighter than we ever have as we inch […]
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