Did you miss us? The spaces between posts have been filled with so much – new creations, workshops, students presenting at ISTE, reports, even a new project to launch the course, and a design institute with “deep dives” to learn more about PBL, SEL, UDL…
Compose Our World Posts
In my last blog post I wrote about how attending to relationships and the emotional cues therein are the cornerstone for implementing accessible project based learning. But, how can teachers systematically attend to relationships in ways that explicitly inform their practice? Is there a science…
Read the PostLeveraging the “D” in UDL: Creating Empathy to Inform Pedagogy
Some musings as my husband is in surgery (minor), my hands can now both type (finally!), and my wishes are also with the Compose our World teachers now on vacation and hopefully getting some well deserved rest and rejuvenation. My eight year-old has a new…
Earlier today, Joe, Becca and I had the chance to visit with Bill to talk about some of what we’re learning as we work together. The conversation was part of the 2016 DML Course on Program Evaluation for Connected Learning. Our session was on measuring…
Read the PostCOW Team Members Explore Measurement and Evidence on DML #CLeval Webinar
Today, the COW All Design Team held a meeting at Windsor High School. Part of our time together was spent hearing from each of the unit teams and giving some feedback based on what we heard. You can review that entire pile of feedback and…
To reflect is to pause, to take a moment to check in with yourself to see how, or what, or why, you’re doing what it is that you’re doing. When you reflect, you’re considering where you’ve been, where you are, and where you might go.…
My 9th grade social studies teacher told me, very early on in my 9th grade year, to “write and I will be right.” That was twenty four years ago, and I’m still struggling to plumb the depths of that comment. But he was, ahem, right.…