Category : “Assessment”

Reality Check for This Here Teacher

February 20, 2017Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment, Education, Education Policy

Are we in a post-truth society? Are we hopelessly floating in our bubbles of alternative facts and biased narratives? Or can reasoning and evidence prevail? The truth is that sometimes, one doesn’t even need the facts to be “alternative” to

Received

February 19, 2017Donnie Dicus Assessment, Current Affairs, Education Policy, Elementary, Life in the Classroom

Recently, Secretary of Education Betsy Devos stated that many teachers are in “receive mode’ and are “waiting to be told what to do.” Many teacher advocates became ablaze with outrage as they decried this statement. I understand how many are

Test Talks or Stress Talks?

February 17, 2017Treva Jenkins Assessment, Education, Education Policy

Yes, it’s that time again. It’s time for the wonderful world of standardized testing. All is a buzz in the teacher’s lounge. Nope. Not really. This year, I feel more stress coming from my little scholars than I do my colleagues.

Reality Check for English Language Learners

December 8, 2016Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Uncategorized

Snippets of surreptitious conversational Spanish dart around the classroom amid scattered outbursts of giggles. I review the color-coded highlighting of sentence parts in our newest sentence formula involving superlative adjectives, pointing to the laminated neon cards magneted to the

Running and Testing

October 13, 2016Jen Robinson Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Uncategorized

For the past several months I have been training for a half marathon. Myself and several other colleagues each had a different, unique training regiment leading up to the race. I needed to begin early and gradually increase the distance

Why Differentiate in Class if We Don’t Differentiate in the Real World?

August 18, 2016Sandy Merz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education Policy, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

At an event the other day with a group of teachers I had just met, one made the offhand comment that the real world doesn’t differentiate. Her opinion was met with general agreement by the other teachers. The undertone of

Teaching to the Test (or Not)

June 9, 2016Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment

I know I have written about this topic before, the relationship between standards and standardization, instructional innovation and teaching for creativity, and standardized tests, but I am going to take another go at it, because this year I changed levels

#Cakefail

February 2, 2016Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment, Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, Professional Development

Ever since the Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day has become an icon for the repetitive patterns in which we find ourselves, patterns which must be improved incrementally over time, because they are so much a part of how we operate.

The Little Things

November 19, 2015Alaina Adams Assessment, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Love, National Board Certification, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership

As I’ve gotten into my groove as a returning rookie teacher, I’ve rediscovered the joys of finding success in the little things. When I say “little,” I mean things that measure students’ success in ways that are not analyzed as

An Aggressive Reply to Common Core Advocates

October 14, 2015Sandy Merz Assessment, Education Policy, Parent Involvment

My opinion of the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards has followed a path from cautious support to grudging support to undecided to qualified disapproval to outright opposition. My scorn for their implementation has never varied. I’ve written that teachers who support the standards

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