Nancy Frey's Blog, page 15
May 4, 2023
Three Strategies to Ensure Your Lesson Plans Are Grounded in Equity
Ground Lesson Plans in Equity and Acceleration to Address Unfinished Learning By Sonya Murray and Gwendolyn Y. Turner As educators gather the shattered pieces from a broken, unprecedented time in education, research suggests more students are experiencing unfinished learning. According to NAEP reading and mathematics […]
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May 2, 2023
Selecting a Rich Algebra Task: Six Questions to Ask
As teachers we want to use rich tasks to support our students in acquiring conceptual understanding that leads to stronger procedural fluency. Sometimes when we are caught up in our routines, we may not pause to consider if a task is significant enough to impact […]
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May 1, 2023
Why Educators Must be Trained in Mental Health First Aid
When I first began teaching, I learned culture-builders and behavior management techniques ranging from morning meetings to brain breaks. I had a behavior management plan and “ambitious but achievable” goals of high academic achievement and low discipline referrals. Every year I received mandatory CPR and […]
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April 20, 2023
Ensuring All Learners are Ready for the Right Level of Challenge: Front-End Scaffolds
In an earlier Corwin Connect post, we took on the challenge of providing just-right supports for learners to provide the access and opportunity to the highest level of learning for all our students. As a reminder, we shared our model for educational scaffolding that brought […]
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April 19, 2023
Support Students’ Whole Lives with Whole Child Strategies
During the COVID-19 pandemic, households became homeschools and we saw how connected life and learning really are. As a former teacher and school leader, I experienced this every day. If students had a rough night, it impacted their behavior in my classroom the next day. […]
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April 12, 2023
What’s Your Leadership Story?
In her Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts (2018) Brene Brown said, Own your story and you get to write the ending. Deny the story and it owns you (p. 270). As the authors of best-seller, Leading While Female: A Culturally Proficient […]
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April 10, 2023
How to Improve Feedback for All: New Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities (Part 2)
Feedback is everywhere. Teachers offer it in the lab, on the playing field, in the music and art room, at the table, and in just about every teaching and learning space in our schools. We know from decades of research that feedback is a significant […]
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April 5, 2023
Strategies to Support Student Resilience and Wellbeing
3 Approaches to Teaching Tools for Well-being By Frederika Roberts, Kimberley Evans, Thérèse Hoyle and Bukky Yusuf As educators, we are in both a privileged position and one of great responsibility – not merely to educate students academically, but to teach them tools for well-being. […]
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April 4, 2023
Empowering Students as Questioners: A High School’s Journey
“Good leaders ask great questions that inspire others to dream more, think more, learn more, do more and become more.” (John Maxwell) This quote epitomizes my campus’s point of view about the power of questioning. While Maxwell emphasizes the role of the leader, at Molina […]
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March 28, 2023
Enriching a Math Task Using Reversibility Questions to Promote Robust Understanding
“How do I know that students have learned more than just an algorithm?” “What are some tasks I can give students that push them to think critically?” “What tasks can I use to create more opportunities for student discourse?” These are questions we as math […]
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