Milestones at the start of summer: A tribute
I used this LEGO car in a five minute demo lesson - my first lesson ever - on Newton's laws of motion. It was a gimmick to get the people in the room thinking about what they knew about forces, and...
View Article2012-2013 Year In Review - Standards Based Grading
This is the first in a series of posts about things I did with my classes this year. When I made the decision last fall to commit to standards based grading, these were the main unknowns that hung at...
View ArticleToo Many Reassessments, Just in Time for Summer
I posted this graph of cumulative reassessments versus the day of the semester on Twitter: That, my friends, is a reassessment system gone wild. The appropriate title for that image, as one person...
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