Science is all about making sense of the world, and phenomena-based instruction helps students connect their learning to real-world events. Whether it’s why leaves change color in the fall, how predators and prey interact, or why a soda can collapses when rapidly...
As the new school year begins, this is a great opportunity to spark curiosity and critical thinking in our students. One of the most powerful ways to achieve this is by embracing the concept of sense-making. Sense-making encourages students to go beyond rote...
Recently, I've been sharing how to use ChatGPT in my math professional learning sessions. I became aware that many educators are not familiar with it. If you haven't started to experiment with ways of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make your job easier, there...
We are excited to announce our Change The Story workshops during summer 2023! Are you interested a workshop-style professional learning opportunity? In our two-day workshops, we will facilitate teacher reflection on how to change the story about what math and science...
This is a follow up post to the previous two posts discussing how education has changed in the past 5 years. If you haven’t read the previous post, go back and start from the beginning. In the previous posts, we discussed how educators are referring to the...
This is a follow up post to the previous post (The New Better (pt. 1). If you haven’t read the previous post, go back and start from the beginning. When we left off, the participants in my keynote presentations were asked to identify the successes of “pandemic...
What is “The New Better”?
Many teachers are asking themselves the question, “how do I best prepare my students for cluster items?” Many teachers experienced a similar thought when the technology-enhanced items (TEI) were introduced. Students who are successful on any assessment typically have...
Let's get this party started! What a whirlwind it has been the last few weeks and months. Eric retired as the Educational Specialist for Secondary Science in Henrico County Public Schools, Virginia at the end of June. Skip retired as the Educational Specialist for...