by reDesign | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Back in July, Jon Altbergs wrote a post: 6 Ways to Use Drawing to Make Meaning. In it, he wrote about some simple activities that teachers across content areas could use to help students develop their visualization skills and make meaning of content, while also...
by reDesign | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Competency-based Learning, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Can you imagine walking into a library, in search of a particular book, to find the library has no classification system in place? Or what about arriving at the airport, passing through security, and discovering there are no flight information display systems or gate...
by reDesign | Dec 3, 2018 | Adult Develpment, Blog, Leadership
Does your school, network or district recognize that Learning is Learning is Learning? When I first began working with reDesign’s Framework for Effective Instruction as a building-level administrator, it was a revelation. It was as though I had been handed the Rosetta...
by reDesign | Oct 25, 2018 | Adult Develpment, Blog, Cultural Responsiveness, Curriculum, Pedagogy
Early Influencers So, the title of this blog is not completely true. Still, the majority of this piece details why it may as well be true for me and why it should be for you, too. First though, in any discussion on what I know about teaching I’d be remiss not to...
by reDesign | Aug 28, 2018 | Assessment, Blog, Competency-based Learning
No matter what kind of system you teach in – assessment – knowing what your students know and are able to do – is essential to understanding what students are learning. In mastery-based systems, in particular, where the focus shifts from time-based completion to...
by reDesign | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog
Reflections on pedagogy that works for marginalized students. More than 15 years ago, Mike Schmoker’s “The ‘Crayola Curriculum’” appeared in Education Week. In it, Schmoker laments the loss of opportunity in classrooms where students—especially those who are behind...
