Nancy Frey's Blog, page 31

Five Years On: An Australian First [Excerpt]

Since 2018, over 350 educators have visited the classrooms of St Bernard’s Catholic Primary School in East Coburg, Victoria. They have travelled from inside and outside the country to see Australia’s first Visible Learning+ Certified School in action, to tap into the knowledge and experience […]

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How Do We Find the Right Level of Challenge for Our Learners?

This blog is Part 4 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Part 2: Four Ingredients that Motivate our Learners to Engage Part 3: Ways to Enhance Remembering: The […]

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Four Ways to Start Math Right This Year When It All Feels New and Urgent

As schools return to fully in-person learning, change is afoot. One noticeable shift is the number of new teachers, teachers working in new buildings, new districts, new subjects, or new grades. Even veteran teachers returning to classrooms have that déjà vu sense of things being […]

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Ways to Enhance Remembering: The Role of Retrieval Practice in Learning

Part 3 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning.  Part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom   Part 2: Four Ingredients that Motivate our Learners to Engage  Whether you teach physics or physical education, mathematics or music, calculus or kindergarten, we want our students […]

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“Wise Feedback” at the Heart of Identity Safe Formative Assessment

About the Identity Safe Formative Assessment Five-Part Blog Series  Formative assessment (FA) operates as a feedback loop. Together, educators and students set goals, assess, and adjust learning in real time based on collected evidence combined with feedback. Identity Safety is an equity-focused approach where students of all backgrounds […]

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The 2021 Annual Visible Learning Conference Rewind

Attended the 9th Annual Visible Learning Conference with us? Couldn’t attend and want an overview of what you missed/ a preview of what is to come at AVL 2022?  Let’s take a quick look back at this year’s conference:  Over 1,000 attendees joined us virtually from all around the globe for […]

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3 Ways to Keep Students Thinking in COVID-Restricted Math Classrooms

If you are among the many educators who have recently read Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics (Grades K-12): 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning, you may have been feeling excited, energized, and ready to start getting your students to think more in math when school started in the fall. And then it became sadly clear that COVID-19 is still with us and your school will likely look […]

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Four Ingredients that Motivate Our Learners to Engage

Part 2 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Review part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom  Let’s start with a challenge.    Once upon a time a local merchant went to a market and purchased a wolf, a goat, and a several heads […]

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Tools for Identity Safe Formative Assessment: Deliberate Practice & Productive Struggle

About the Identity Safe Formative Assessment Five-Part Blog Series   Formative assessment (FA) operates as a feedback loop. Together, educators and students set goals, assess, and adjust learning in real time based on collected evidence combined with feedback. Identity Safety is an equity-focused approach where students of all backgrounds […]

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Looking for Writing Instruction That Kids Enjoy? Get Real!

Where do we see real, authentic writing in the world?    All around us.   Everywhere.   Daily.  Textual subheadings? They don’t only reside in documents, but also in grocery and department stores (think about the signs at the top of all the aisles), on Pinterest (name that […]

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