Donā€™t Panic about ChatGPTā€”Students Still Can Focus on the Process
In an article for The Atlantic, Daniel Herman says ChatGPT is “The End of High-School English.” If you’re not familiar, ChatGPT is artificial intelligence that can write—and write well.
A student can ask ChatGPT to compose what...
Feedback > Grades: Using Questions to Progress
By Elizabeth Jorgensen
I want to go all semester without talking about grades, without circling boxes on a rubric, and without assignment sheets or daily assessments. But if there are no grades, what drives our daily classroom environment?
Questions.
Instead of focusing on standards,...
Teachers Walking on Eggshells
By Michelle Blanchet
How do we make it okay to talk about things again?
During a recent project, I worked with teachers to deliver problem-solving workshops. The teachers discussed challenges in their local schools and communities, developing potential projects and solutions to address them.
...
Foster Resilient Learners and Assess the Process, Not the Outcome
By Elizabeth Jorgensen
Do you remember your GPA? Or a specific score you received in elementary, middle, high school, or college?
Are you recalling that time you failed a chemistry test? Or when you cheated your way to a better score?
Or maybe that time you were benched from the...
Balance Parent Meetings with Positivity
Dr. Kelsie Reed
I have been in several parent-teacher meetings where I could feel a parent's anxiety, frustration, and helplessness.
I remember one particular meeting where I chimed in to mention that while the team was currently discussing weaknesses, these limitations did not sum up...
Flip Deficit Thinking IEP Meetings with Productive Positivity
By Dr. Kelsie Reed
As a school psychologist, I participate in most, if not all, IEP meetings at my assigned schools. I’ve experienced productive meetings, collaborative meetings, one-sided meetings, contentious meetings, argumentative meetings, and everything in between.
The common...
Times 10 and ACE-Ed Launch Equity Recognition Partnership
We are proud to announce that Times 10 Publications and the American Consortium for Equity in Education (ACE-Ed) are teaming up to promote and honor change-makers around equity in education. ACE-Ed's Excellence in Equity Awards will honor
leaders, authors, and educators whose tremendous efforts...
Deficit Thinking in Schools: A Social Justice Issue
By Dr. Kelsie Reed
You can broadly define deficit thinking in schools as a way of blaming the victim.
It involves holding a student, a student's family, or a student’s culture accountable for academic or behavioral difficulties at school. For example, school staff may assume that a student...
Leading with Grace through Flops, Falls, and Fails
By Jessica Cabeen
I have been in education for over 20 years (and in administration for 15), and this marks my first year in a new administrative role. With all that experience, someone might think it would be a smooth transition to the new school year.
However, within the first week of teachers...
How to Improve Your PD with a Pineapple
The idea of observing other teachers is nothing new. It’s the way we all first started learning how to teach, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a teacher who hadn’t learned something from sitting in a colleague’s classroom.
Observing each other teach is one of...
