Win the Day

Win the Day

Win the Day! “I cried today at a team meeting.” “I cried on a Zoom meeting with a parent.’ I’ve heard these things more than once as schools have started to open.  Teachers and administrators are overwhelmed with keeping themselves and their students safe,...

My Teaching Evolution: Assessment

Physics teacher Dolores Gende is shifting her teaching to a student-driven learning model by selecting some areas of focus each year. This year it’s assessment. “I see assessment as an ongoing process that informs me and my students and gauges the progression of learning. I partner with my students, and they appreciate not being constrained by fixed deadlines and dead-end quiz scores. They prefer the ample opportunities we create to demonstrate they can accomplish all of our Learning Objectives.”