• Welcome to the Mathematics Assessment Project

  tags: Math assessment #MustRead #EDUC115N

• http://www.cuip.net/~cac/nlu/tie512win10/articles/Inquiry%20Modeling%20and%20Metacognition-%20Making%20Science%20Accessible%20to%20All%20Students.pdf

  Academic article on research surrounding the effects of peer + self assessment on achievement. Developing a heightened sense of what one knows. Meta-cognition and mindset.

  tags: motivation assessment mindset evaluation performance #MustRead #EDUC115N

• ENHANCING AND UNDERMINING INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: THE EFFECTS OF TASK-INVOLVING AND EGO-INVOLVING EVALUATION ON INTEREST AND PERFORMANCE – BUTLER – 2011 – British Journal of Educational Psychology – Wiley Online Library

  Academic article on research surrounding the differences in 1) giving grades, 2) giving diagnostic feedback, and 3) giving both. Developing a heightened sense of what one knows. Meta-cognition and mindset.

  tags: motivation assessment grading feedback mindset evaluation performance #MustRead #EDUC115N

• Finding Ways to Nguyen Students Over: When I Let Them Own the Problem

  I’m engaged in a Stanford MOOC called “How to Learn Math” offered by Dr. Jo Boaler. It is amazing and integrated with Dweck’s work in Growth Mindset. This example of a math re-design is a wonderful case study of big, open problems vs. small, closed problems.

  tags: math problem_based_learning #MustRead EDUC115N

• How Your Brain Reacts To Mistakes Depends On Your Mindset – Association for Psychological Science

  “people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed.”

  tags: mindset #MustRead innovation

• Peter Sims, on Finding Creativity Through Imperfection – NYTimes.com

  “This is how comedians and entrepreneurs must work — by making countless small bets to discover what works. The real genius is in the approach.

  The same holds true for leaders, managers and collaborators. They must to be willing to learn from mistakes. Affordable risks should be encouraged, and small failures celebrated — these are the mark of learning organizations. Otherwise, risk aversion will lead to stagnation and decline.”

  tags: creativity innovation mistakes entrepreneurship #MustRead ooching bullets_then_canonballs

• 8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom | Edutopia

  Incredible case study and resource curation for space redesign of learning environments (“classrooms”)!

  tags: classroom edutopia redesign design space 3rdTeacher learning environment #MustRead

• I Believe in One Size Fits All Professional Development

  A great piece about doing what we know works, as a team, with “band adjustments” so that PL (PD) does, in fact, fit all, instead of none.

  tags: pd professional development professional learning #MustRead bestpractices

• Rebuilding Joplin High School | DesignRealized Adaptive Reuse Course

  This is a different kind of #MustRead – a web session about…

  “A 55 DAY DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
  A deadly tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri last May 22, and leveled the town’s high school. School officials were determined that school would start on time on August 17, just 55 days later.
  This session takes a look at the condensed design and construction process of transforming a vacant big box retail store into a 21st Century learning environment. It demonstrates how community involvement and a committed team created a space that surpassed all expectations.”

  tags: adaptive reuse space design Joplin #MustRead

• Barrington Irving: ‘Classroom in the Sky’ project by Florida pilot includes key Wichita stop | Wichita Eagle – newsle

  It’s past time that we rethink what we mean by “classroom.”

  tags: classroom space curriculum time #MustRead

• Diana Laufenberg: Classroom Redesign Challenge! Think Like a Designer | MindShift – newsle

  What if there were a show on HGTV about classroom redesign? Like “Design on a Dime” or “Trading Spaces.” But for learning environments in schools!

  tags: classroom design space #MustRead

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• Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness – Emily Esfahani Smith – The Atlantic

  “Being happy is about feeling good. Meaning is derived from contributing to others or to society in a bigger way.”

  Connected to “giving an education.”

  tags: meaning happiness Health synergy ActionEd #MustRead motivation purpose

• Why Teachers Need to Be Great Storytellers | Edutopia

  “The bare facts don’t engage emotions in the way that a recent New Tech graduate does when she tells her former teachers, “Your students graduate not just prepared, but inspired to chase their own whys.””

  tags: storytelling edutopia PBL #MustRead Synergy school model

  • “When (and where) were you when you learned best?”
  • One of Chaltain’s suggestions that I’d love to see schools adopt: Host “story slams” where parents, teachers, and other community members share memories from their own personal learning journeys.

• What the New SAT and Digital ACT Might Look Like – NYTimes.com

  “Big changes are coming to the nation’s two competing admissions tests.

  Mr. Coleman, who became president last October, is intent on rethinking the SAT to make it an instrument that meshes with what students are learning in their classrooms. Meanwhile, the ACT, which has always been more curriculum-based, is the first of the two to move into the digital age. In adapting its test for the computer, ACT Inc. is tiptoeing past the fill-in-the-bubble Scantron sheets toward more creative, hands-on questions.”

  tags: sat act nytimes com testing standardized assessment college_ready #MustRead

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• The Kieve-Wavus Educator’s Conference | Emergence

  Beautiful conference description – that “label” does it little justice. It’s really a deep and thoughtful synthesis and advancement of research and practice in educational innovation! Full of links.

  tags: student centered studentdriven emergence #MustRead

• What Creativity Actually Looks Like, Revisited | The Learning Pond

  Facilitating opportunities to explore learning landscapes, driven by curiosity, nurtured by teacher-Sherpa. Let student-Learners build the bridges and imagine/create ways to uncover mesas and fill voids of not knowing.

  tags: creativity student centered inquiry-based Synergy futureofed #MustRead

• The Tyranny of Perfection – Explore. Create. Repeat. – by 4ormat

  “Intolerance of anything less than our absolute best, even on initial mock-ups or prototypes, can be the biggest threat to the creative process. For anyone in the business of selling some form of creativity, that’s akin to erecting your own tombstone.” There are a number of excellent points in this brief article, all of which make me wonder how we are systemically and purposefully designing the structures of school to nurture and promote creativity among our learners – adults and students.

  tags: perfection creativity #MustRead

• Innovate, Create, Educate: Blurring the Lines of Learning

  “While these students have created something remarkable, I wonder what would have happened if they were encouraged to work on this personal project during the school day?” [#Amen!]

  tags: ActionEd #MustRead

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• Stanford Magazine – Sparks Fly – March/April 2011

  tags: design thinking designthinking d.school #MustRead ActionEd

• Most Audacious Companies: Menlo Innovations | Inc.com

  With a team at MVPS, I am participating in a Stanford d.school course called “Design Thinking Action Lab.” During the intro of the course, this article was recommended. It’s a great example of a few different ways to imagine workflow and process. The stories would make great experiments (practices) for school faculty/admin!

  [NOTE: I’m also vacationing this week, so the #MustRead Shares is lighter this week – just some reading from the courses I am taking.]

  tags: process workflow innovation time space teamwork collaboration #MustRead

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• 6 Questions To Ask Yourself About Learning Outcome Assessment | The Puzzle

  “We are pleased to share the wisdom of Jonathan E. Martin, experienced independent school head and principal of his new educational consulting practice, JonathanEMartin Ed. Services.  Today, he recommends the six questions independent school educators should ask themselves this summer about Learning Outcome Assessment at their schools.  Here’s what he recommends:”
  [H/T @jbrettjacobsen]

  tags: LOA assessment CSA jonathanemartin learningoutcomeassessment #MustRead

• Math Munch | A Weekly Digest of the Mathematical Internet

  tags: math #MustRead resources integrated studies

• Congruent Thinking on Future of K12 via IFTF.org | The Learning Pond

  5 “dimensions of ed transformation” that all school leaders need to be considering. Great catalysts and provocations for thinking. 

  tags: Future of Learning edreform transformation grantlichtman #MustRead

• What Does It Mean To Be A Change Leader in Education?

  Common practices shared by successful change leaders in education, as detailed by @DrTonyWagner

  tags: change leader #MustRead transformation Wagner

• International Center for Leadership in Education – Rigor, Relevance, Relationships

  tags: rigor relevance relationships Wagner Framework taxonomy #MustRead #TDed

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