The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. Arthur Miller I tried not to do it but I couldn’t resist. I have parodied Superintendent Chris Kennedy on two previous occasions, taking his masterful Top Three List and brutalizing it a bit with my…
Category: Reporting
Producing Quality Assessment in Digital Portfolios
The digital portfolio embraces the challenge of making learning visible and mirrors quality assessment where the learning and student choice, voice and ownership are central and core. How does one capture quality assessment evidence and produce an ongoing digital portfolio for every student? The point is not to regulate but to re-orientate what we…
Reporting in a Digital Age
If you change the way you teach, you change the way you assess, and if you change the way you assess, you change the way you teach. Tammy Hartmann, Principal, Ocean Cliff Elementary School Our district has been looking at and changing the way we communicate student learning for several years now. We recognized in…
Our Journey into Pedagogical Documentation
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. Loris Malaguzzi “Inquiry shaped our belief that pedagogical documentation furthers a strength-based image of children, makes their thinking visible, provides for student and teacher reflection and helps…
The Sharing Continues
Our Engaging the Digital Learner: Learning by Design series continues to be a motivational, inspirational and informative event for the 280 educators that join us each evening. The sessions are designed so we hear learning stories through four Ignite presentations, with table talk in-between, dinner for more continued conversation and then an opportunity to hear a…