Nancy Frey's Blog, page 39

Facilitating Positive Impressions with Multilingual Students and Families

As a young girl, my mother introduced me to the idea of first impressions. She emphasized how my physical appearance and my first words in new interactions would cause others to form an almost instant impression of me. She also explained that it would be extremely challenging to change negative first impressions once they were […]

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7 Factors Useful in Facilitating Student Collaboration From a Distance

Getting students to talk with their peers about the content being learned, using academic language, problem-solving, and negotiating ideas has been a priority for teachers for many years.  Tremendous progress has been made since the days of transmission schooling in which teachers talked and students […]

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What It Takes to Improve Schools Now

Along with the devastation of the coronavirus outbreak and widespread school closures come hopes for reimagining schools as they reopen. These hopes for the future, however, rest on making the concrete improvements in schools that we know we can make today.   Despite the enormity of the challenges […]

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How Do You Engage Developing Middle-Grade Readers?

Throughout my career as a middle school principal, teachers have expressed frustration over finding appropriate reading materials for older students who read below grade level. They want students to be excited about what they’re reading – not embarrassed that they’re reading a book written for a younger child – and they want students to […]

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5 Stats that Will Change the Way You Teach Girls

Girls’ lives are hard and, let’s face it, adults don’t really understand what girls are going through.  Sure, we might know what it’s like to be a teenager, to struggle with academic or family issues, or to deal with complicated friendships or relationships. But we don’t know what it is like to be a […]

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How to Engage Students in Learning Mathematics

Engagement is a fundamental goal for educators. We want our students to be engaged because we know, at an innate level, that if students are not engaged they are not learning – they can’t be learning. But what is engagement exactly, and how do we […]

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What Is Identity Safe Formative Assessment? Part III

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 […]

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Math Talk and COVID-impacted Instruction

Talk, talk, talk. The importance of math talk continues to be emphasized because we know it is important to have students talk about mathematics if we want them to develop meaning for mathematical ideas. But how do we engage students in math talk when instruction has […]

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Three Warning Signs of Teacher Fatigue and What You Can Do About It

This Year’s Story Teachers have taken on a lot in this radically different school year—new forms of technology, new ways to virtually instruct their students, new ways to keep students engaged, new ways to assess progress—the list of “new” is endless. School leaders are facing […]

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3 Aspects of Comprehension Instruction

Brief Description: There are three aspects of comprehension instruction that we believe are necessary to impact students’ thinking. As Hattie and Donoghue (2016) noted, instructional strategies can be organized in terms of skill, will, and thrill. We believe that three-part model applies to comprehension as well.  […]

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