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Fostering Student Ownership by Changing the Delivery of Feedback

Since September, I have been hiding a shameful secret from the other teachers in my department: I have not read a student’s essay all year. Ok – so that might be a slight exaggeration. I have read parts of students’ Read More …

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Doing What We Want Our Students to Do: Being Vulnerable and Willing to Fail to Improve the Quality of Learning

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English teacher Denise Earles from Madison Public Schools, CT is part of an innovation project to experiment with standards based grading in a traditional school system. Kevin Siedlecki is in his 8th year as an English teacher at Daniel Hand Read More …

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Classrooms Full of Learners: The Culture Standards-Based Grading Has Cultivated

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The first time I heard about Standards-Based Grading was when Rick Wormeli came to speak at our school at the start of the 2016-2017 school year. He convinced me that I had to change the way I was grading. I Read More …

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Getting Started in Standards-Based Grading: Creating Course Standards

  English teacher Denise Earles from Madison Public Schools, CT is part of an innovation project to experiment with standards based grading in a traditional school system. Kevin Siedlecki is in his 8th year as an English teacher at Daniel Read More …

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Turning Sparknotes and Shmoop into Allies in the Educational Process

Students are going to great lengths to avoid reading literature. Rather than read classic texts, they will spend hours reading using Sparknotes, Shmoop, Gradesaver, and other internet sites that offer students a shortcut to understanding. For a long time, I Read More …

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A High School English Teacher’s Search for Why We Read

Ever since I started teaching, I have struggled with the idea of how to get students to actually read the books I wanted them to read. It is no secret that sites like Sparknotes and Shmoop give students what they Read More …

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Why Reading High Interest Young Adult Fiction is Not Enough

One might argue that if provoking original ideas is the function of literature in the English classroom, then we should move away from classics in favor of high-interest contemporary novels written for teens. That can happen with good Young Adult Read More …

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A Standards-Based Approach in a Traditional School Setting

English teacher Denise Earles from Madison Public Schools, CT is part of an innovation project to experiment with standards based grading in a traditional school system. Kevin Siedlecki is in his 8th year as an English teacher at Daniel Hand Read More …

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