Here's a fun statistics themed word search to enjoy that features vocabulary words related to statistics and probability. It is available as a free printable pdf. [...]

Can your students read between the lines? Inference skills, the ability to figure out something that isn’t directly stated by… [...]

From 1990 until 2013, the CEO of TFA was the founder, Wendy Kopp. Under her leadership the program grew from a small organization that struggled to make payroll into a powerful player in the education world. When Wendy left in… [...]

Zuihitsu is a Japanese poetry form that translates roughly to “running brush.” The idea behind a zuihitsu is to follow your “brush,” or pen, and see where it takes you. Zuihitsu can include short or long lines (think Walt Whitman).… [...]

My last series of posts centered on standards-based assessment, which for several years has been the focus of much of my work with teachers. I’ve been somewhat dragged into this work. I think–a lot–about my experiences in my own classroom… [...]