- ERB results study and a follow-up study on teaching for improving reading comprehension
- Standards-based grading:
- Learned a lot more about Edline and especially for SBG (the power law is interesting)
- Wormeli article about redos
- I was especially interested in what research has to say about SBG
- Other resources here, here, here
- Webinar by Tom Schimmer on "Accurate Grading with a Standards-Based Mindset" (post)
- Advisory work:
- compiled some resources for in a Google site (including Philosophy for Kids lessons and excerpts from Worst-Case Scenario)
- made a sample digital portfolio students could use to document goals, reflections, work samples
- Tech things:
- Found cool tech tools: CleverPDF, Cheatography, histography.io
- Learned about vlookup (in modifying the Rubric Tabs)
- Learned about making interactive timelines with Knight Lab Timeline and interactive maps with Google My Maps
- Became a Google Certified Educator Level 1:
- Skills checklist for L1
- Skills checklist for L2
- Hangouts, Groups, Classroom
- appointment slots in Google Calendar
- mail merge for gmail
- Google Tasks in gmail & Google Calendar
- Filter vs. Filter View in Sheets
- assign an action to someone in a comment
- Show questions based on answers in Google Forms
- Data validation and pivot charts in Google Sheets
- Creating a Grading Rubric for Easy Grading with Google Forms
- add-ons and extensions: Doctopus & Goobric, Orange Slice, Rubric Tabs (another)
- more great add-ons for Google Classroom specifically
- played around with Gooru
- Coursera:
- Chinese religions
- Ancient Greece @ Wesleyan
- BRAVE poster for classroom
- New resources for History 7
- Search ReSearch for cool Google research tips, like how you can append this string to the end of a search URL to sort results in reverse chronological order: &tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/0,sbd:1
- Planned Getty visit, reserved date
- Learned about using Hypothes.is to make and share annotations of web content!
- Began a list of picture book resources at PVLD
- Organized electronic files and set up planning calendar for next year
- Trimmed "Park Avenue: money, power, and the American Dream" video to my YouTube channel for History 7
- Watched and wrote Andy Taylor as a result: These Two Young Bushmen Hope for a New Life in the Modern World
- A Handmaid's Tale on Hulu
- Cal Newport's book and created a cheat sheet on study skills and work habits to use next year with students (also a google doc here)
- Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You by Luke Reynolds and recorded a few quotes
- Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide for Middle School; scanned and filed excerpts for advisory use
- A Repair Kit for Grading: Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades by Ken O'Connor (notes)
- Black Ships Before Troy and took notes on chapter themes
- Philosophy for Kids and filed each lesson individually
- About Jonathan Haidt and his moral matrix concept (TED talk); need to read The Righteous Mind!
- Re-read and took notes on Rushworth Kidder's Good Kids, Tough Choices
- 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans by Karl Pillemer (someone else's summary)
- Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
- Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison (Google doc)
- Victor Davis Hanson, The Father of Us All: War and History (notes)
- Amanda Lindhout's memoir, A House in the Sky (terrible!)
To Do:
Marzano online course on SBG?
Marshall memo gems?
Marshall memo gems?
