Sometimes we have to step back & ask: Am I just giving kids "work" to do in compliance? Work that I will give a grade for? OR Am I designing a task that produces evidence of learning? A task that kids will monitor, assess, reflect & revise?

TY to the districts that continue to trust our team to facilitate curriculum development & assessment creation. We GET to! 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓵𝓶𝓮𝓻 @DrGallamore SMCAA MoASSP MAESP MO Leadership Missouri DESE MOedchat MASA Leaders MSBA Learning Forward KS KS Dept of Education KSPrincipals #GetFiredUP🔥

Teaching, not just USING the writing process: This student is thinking about what genre & topic she will write. She is also doing an author study where she studies the work of Nicola Davies and tries it out in her writing. Such powerful moves Matt Glover talks about!

So excited for this website! It is/will be a great resource for teachers to address a much-needed area in literacy!

Some believe the majority of learning happens when the teacher's teaching. The majority of the learning happens when the learners are engaging in the task. The teacher prepped this learning with information, knowledge, skills & tools. But they are learning in the doing.

Quantitative evidence of the impact of teacher-student relationships on achievement is thin on the ground, so this paper on the positive benefits of "looping" (teaching the same class for more than one year) by Matthew A. Kraft and colleagues is important: bit.ly/4bBiBvD

Much of what you’ve been told about long-term goals is wrong. The most successful people don’t follow a straight path. They zig and zag. Here’s why—and how you can use the same approach: 🧵

The value of this cannot be overstated! Writing identity is a make or break aspect of student achievement.

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Systems can create or destroy writers. What is your system doing? #edadmin MASA Leaders MoASSP MAESP National Assoc. of Secondary School Principals anniepalmerconsulting.com/systems-can-cr…

If you are a teacher, coach or instructional leader wanting to build your knowledge and craft in writing, this is an opportunity you don't want to miss!

Yes! Some of my most transformative moments were when I received words of encouragement!

What a joy it was to provide teachers feedback today as they implement proficiency scales and student agency at Lafayette County C-1! Great work going on here! #kdfiredup ⁦Dr. Kevin B Daniel⁩ ⁦Aaron Knipmeyer⁩

It doesn’t work that way.

Composing alongside conventions will yield not only better writers, but also more engaged writers.

177 yards (hit straight) with a 7 iron?!?! 😳💪🏼 Proud of our boy!

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Blake Harvard I think this is one of the major failing of our education systems. We haven't managed to persuade our students that when we assess their work, we are trying to assess the quality of the thinking that led to the work, for which the work is a proxy...

What parallels are there between Jo Boaler's insights in math and writing instruction? Research says a lot! #elemwriting #elachat #edadmin #teachingwriting anniepalmerconsulting.com/how-jo-boalers…