What Grading for Mastery Looks Like

MzTeachuh: What Grading for Mastery Looks Like: Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook https://catlintucker.com/2015/08/grading-for-mastery-and-redesigning-my-gradebook/ ...

Ideas for Writers' Workshop

MzTeachuh: Ideas for Writers' Workshop: Creating a Writers' Workshop in a Secondary Classroom https://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-writers-workshop-secondary-classroom-s...

Ideas for Station Rotation (Secondary ELA)

MzTeachuh: Ideas for Station Rotation (Secondary ELA): Rotational Models Work for Any Classroom https://www.edsurge.com/news/2014-06-03-opinion-rotational-models-work-for-any-classroom Lit...

English Language Instruction: Info and Inspiration

MzTeachuh: English Language Instruction: Info and Inspiratio...: Obviously, English Teachers are the heroes of education. Reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, speaking and listening--and digital commu...

Educational Links 1/31/20

10 Tips For Creating More Effective Multiple-Choice Questions

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/41981/

A Strategy for Overcoming Equity Issues in Gifted Programs

https://www.edutopia.org/article/strategy-overcoming-equity-issues-gifted-programs

Impactful Storytelling in the Classroom

https://www.teachhub.com/impactful-storytelling-classroom

50 Tips and Tricks to Facilitating a More Inclusive Classroom

https://www.weareteachers.com/tips-tricks-inclusive-classroom/

How Data and Automation Are Personalizing This School’s Reading Program

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-01-27-how-data-and-automation-are-personalizing-this-school-s-reading-program

How Strengthening Relationships with Boys Can Help Them Learn

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54878/how-strengthening-relationships-with-boys-can-help-them-learn

Ultimately, what boys really need to thrive is a strong connection to at least one stable, loving adult, says Reichert. “Here’s what we are trying to accomplish: every boy known and loved, every boy having the sense that someone has ‘got him’—that someone who knows who he his and what he’s facing and really cares.”  They need a relational anchor, and parents, teachers and coaches can all be “that someone” in the life of a boy.