A colleague, Jason,  has been experimenting with teaching grade 9 applied and academic math in a combined class*.  It has been going well...

This week I participated in a webinar hosted by a principal from Toronto, Emma Nichols (http://goo.gl/VtF6ET).  A number of times...

Today I had to really think about why we integrate technology so well into our program at our school as  I had a visitor who came to...

The question came upabout how you get students on an IEP started in class.  You have given the assignment, you were clear in the...

The term “assessment for learning” (educational acronym AfL) was coined by Wiliam and Black in their 1998 article “Inside the Black Box”...

The Individual Education Plan (IEP)  is our promise to the parents and the student that we will teach them something that is probably...

We know that in any given learning situation students arrive at different places.  When I first started my teaching career at the...

Assessment is the hardest thing you do.  You need to think about myriad of things all at the same time: What do I assess? Content? ...

Traditionally curriculum is designed in units: persuasive writing, short stories, fractions, cell theory etc. In order to make the...

You plan the lesson. You have the ideas. You can see how it is going to go in your head. And then it doesn’t. Somehow the students...

Differentiation, multiple entry points, small group instruction, individualized instruction, IEP’d students—how do we incorporate all of...

We often think of guided reading or guided instruction as a primary technique, but really it is good for students at all grade levels. ...

We have begun to have some discussions about multiple entry points.  Given that our classes are not homogeneous, if we really want all...