How do you encourage high school students to take the ACT WorkKeys® assessment seriously? The marketing team at The Orchard Foundation decided that a hero could best capture the attention of busy and distracted high school students. The Jobinator, a caped superhero who, “By day, saves teenagers from lame jobs. By night, predicts the future,…
Read MoreThis is a re-blog from the ReigningIt blog: “Did you catch the mindshift in education recently? It started when a picture from a conference where Google Chief Education Evangelist Jaime Casapspoke. “Rather than, What do you want to be when you grow up? Let’s ask, What problem do you want to solve? … This changes the conversation…
Read MoreThis post is from the “Life of an Educator” blog: “What message are we sending to students when we average grades over a quarter or a semester? This is definitely a hot topic question for those who are involved in work around grading and assessment. What about the statement below? ‘When we average grades over…
Read MoreThis video is another great example of how educators can have some fun with assessment. Please check out this video created by middle school teachers Justin Goldsmith and James Hogue at Legacy Charter School in Greenville. These teachers, created a rap video with some friends from Anderson University to pump students up with lyrics like…
Read MoreThe words testing and fun are rarely used in the same sentence, but maybe we should try to combine these two necessary elements of education more often. I am not sure that taking tests is ever really fun, but adding some humor to testing certainly can help. While I do know of any research to…
Read MoreThis is a re-post from Jon Acuff’s blog (http://acuff.me/2015/01/funeral-probably-missed/): JANUARY 20, 2015 The funeral you probably missed… Very few people came to the funeral. It was a quiet ceremony without a lot of fan fare. No one spoke at the service because we were all so glad to see it go. Death is never easy…
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