Adventures with the Lower Level

This year has been hard. I probably don't need to tell you that. I can't really put a finger on what exactly it is, but I think this...

As many of you know, I have struggled to find good and valid ways to assess the kids in my classes. And if you have any twitter presence at ...

So what does that data mean??? That's always the big question isn't it? We take the measurements, make the mess, graph the data an...

I have never understood how someone could teach science without including labs as a part of that teaching. I mean, really, isn't that th...

So I am sitting in the back of a freezing cold gymnasium waiting for parents to come visit with me about their* children's progress in m...

Okay, so I have had some major shifts in my grading this year. As we start thinking about closing out this trimester, kids are really, REALL...

Now that we are a couple weeks into school, we are starting to get a little deeper into actually assessing some work. So now the questions o...

On the first day of school, we talk for just a little bit about how students will eventually receive a letter grade for chemistry, not too...

Several years ago, I started teaching earth science. Like so many teachers, I tried to fit everything we could possibly know about earth sys...

Alright. Here they are. These are my newly updated  chemistry targets.  One thing I changed from before is the wording. Each one is now wr...

So I am sitting here trying to figure out the best way to incorporate Capstones into my chemistry class. I am mostly doing this by studying ...

I am in my classroom for the first time since May. I switched over to standards based grading a few years ago, and while I love the way it...

I have an issue with starting, but not finishing posts. This results in an overly large "Drafts" folder that more often than not g...

To say that I am struggling this year, really doesn't begin to describe this feeling. A couple years ago I dove right in and switched ...

During my seminar, students are not allowed to go anywhere if they are failing a class. Yesterday I sent a student to a teacher whose geog...

So I've implemented SBG. More or less. I have written my targets. I have savagely edited my targets. I have overcome mutinies and parent...