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What Is Genius Hour? An Overview For The Classroom

Genius hour is an approach to learning where students are guided by their own interests, background knowledge, and curiosity to learn.

Letter grades don’t mean what you think they mean. In fact, they can fail to communicate important truths about your child’s learning.

Questions are indicators of engagement and curiosity in learning. Just as usefully, they are evidence for what a student understands.

Here are 22 simple assessment strategies and tips to help you become more frequent in your teaching, planning, and curriculum design.

By forcing students to distill one relationship in order to understand another, it’s almost impossible to solve analogies without understanding.

Competency-based learning provides students clear feedback about specific competencies and skills gained over time.

The school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn by transforming your teaching.

Key questions of Me learning include, “What’s worth understanding?” and, “What’s worth doing with what I come to understand?”