[bctt tweet=”Celebrate growth whenever it’s happening!” username=”chadostrowski”] Video Highlights Chad Ostrowski (@chadostrowski) breaks down progress monitoring in a mastery learning classroom. Progress monitoring can be your greatest tool to help manage mastery learning, hold your students accountable, and know what they need and when they need it. There are several ways you can monitor progress in your classroom, including … Read More
4 Ways Guest Blogging Can Help Your Career
Guest blogging is a great way to reflect on your practice and share your ideas to help others. Guest blogging can help grow your network and support innovation. Guest blogging doesn’t need to stress you out. If blogging or reading blogs is something you’re into (I mean you’re here, reading this right?) you probably know how much impact they can … Read More
Humanizing School: 3 Ways to Make Students Feel Valid and Valued
We can try to humanize school with help from students. Students provided feedback through student-centered discussions on humanizing schools. Students were more interested in foundational changes than they were in educational technology or systems. The 3 major categories students’ responses fall into are trusting students, valuing their knowledge, and providing meaningful feedback. Recently, in a training with a local non-profit, … Read More
Happy Holidays to you, Teacher.
As I was sitting here at my desk, in the midst of the Holiday Break, I started to reflect on this year and all that I’ve experienced. This isn’t a unique thing. I think we all do this around the New Year. We often think about the amazing things that happened this year, the challenges we faced, and what our … Read More
Still Not Sure How to Roll Out That New District Initiative?
Working on a new district initiative? One of the most common things we come across when talking with district administrators is the story of that last initiative that fell flat or blew up in their face. The truth is, rolling out a new district-wide initiative is not easy. It is complicated, stressful, and always presents the potential for push-back, frustration, … Read More