A Year’s Worth of Learning Intentions & Success Criteria for Number Talks

Sometimes the idea of creating and communicating meaningful learning intentions and success criteria for every part of our instructional day is overwhelming.  From the moment learners enter our classroom door, they are engaged in intentional learning experiences. Some of these...

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Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom K-2

Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2 is out! This book is a sequel to the megawatt bestseller Visible Learning for Mathematics by John Hattie. Kateri had the honor of writing alongside educational greats like John Hattie, Doug Fisher, and...

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Individual Academic Goals & Mid-Year Data

Since our October workshop on Student-Centered Assessment and Goal Setting, we’ve shared strategies for noticing and encouraging students’ naturally occurring, in-the-moment goals and for modeling goal setting and the student-centered assessment cycle explicitly through class goals. Now, it’s time...

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Progress Monitoring Tools to Make Learning Visible

Check out Kateri's guest blog post for Corwin at http://corwin-connect.com/2018/10/progress-monitoring-tools-to-make-learning-visible/. She explains four critical teaching practices that are accomplished when learning is visible. She details four key steps for effective documentation that makes learning visible, and therefore, actionable in a sustained...

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