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Being Intentional About Being Intentional

Posted in Assessment, Experience, Kids, Learning, Life, Problem Solving, Teaching, Yoga, tagged , , , , , , , on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Intentionality. With thought. Deliberate. Designed. Purposeful. Intentionality is on my mind a lot because I think that assessment can be more interesting, engaging, and powerful (for learners and teachers) when it’s less about measurement and accountability and more about supporting authentic learning practices. In this vein, assessment can be an interesting catalyst for reminding us [...]

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Milestones

Posted in Assessment, Goals, Kids, Learning, Preschool, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is a picture of my kid with his bike at the age of 3 and 11/12 months: This is a more recent picture of him with his new bike at the age of 4 and 30 seconds: Some pretty major things needed to happen to get from picture #1 to picture #2. For example, [...]

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Is He Learning?

Posted in Assessment, Education, Learning, Preschool, tagged , , , , on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Last week we received my kid’s first report card from his new school and we had our first parent-teacher conference. So you all know, Mac is 3 and 11/12ths years old and he is in preschool. So this is all new to us. The report card and the conference have me thinking about assessment (of [...]

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Sherman Saved The Day

Posted in Literature, Toddlers, tagged , , on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Elayna Alexandra (Flodin), one of the student bloggers in my collection, was thoughtful enough to send me a copy of a children’s book that she illustrated called Sherman the Frog Meets the Snow Princess for my kid Mac. Mac has a thing for frogs, and boy howdy, now he has a thing for Sherman! This [...]

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