Designers of instruction are akin to learning architects. They aim to construct instructional experiences that engender durable, useful, and meaningful...
charter-schools
“I have a ton of different things I dabble in, but I’m no prodigy in any of them. I wasn’t ever satisfied sticking to one skill because the one thing...
Editor’s Note: My belief is there will be no significant change in education until “student assessment” is reinvented. Alfie Kohn, former...
The Day I Abolished Grading
“You mean we did this all for nothing!?!?”
I can remember the day I decided to abolish grading. It was November 2006...
“Conventional wisdom holds that different people learn in different ways. Something is missing from that idea, however, so we offer a...
Productive Conversations
In my role as someone who writes about productivity, I enjoy the opportunity to discuss this topic with a variety of different...
The Spark
Tim Ferriss’s first book, The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), has been selling well in hardcover for almost a decade. In this time, it has resonated with...
Can developmental math work? That’s the question many have wondered about and worked hard to answer. In this blog post, I’ll share about a course that...
Due to the increased attention on inequality in education, specifically with regard to discipline and academic achievement, disproportionality is quickly...
The ultimate goal of learning new vocabulary is to understand the words you are reading and to be able to use them in context and make the words part of...
