Category: alternative assessment
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Bitmoji Classroom Tutorial
Check out my “Quick Bitmoji Tutorial” on my YouTube Channel “Teaching History Her Way”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duelvsgzc8s&t=2s I swear I wasn’t going to jump on the Bitmoji Classroom train… but I did. We could all use a little fun these days, and you can’t deny that these Bitmoji Classrooms are cute. At the…
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Whose Independence?
I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…
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Reflection for Assessment & Growth
As a reflective practitioner, I see so much value in the way thinking about my teaching can help me improve. I leave myself post-its in my planner so that when I come back to units the following year, I know what I want to change, I keep a notebook for writing down ideas that I…
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Flipgrid & a Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson
A few weeks ago, thanks to the Twitter universe, I stumbled upon an educational tool called “Flipgrid” (@flipgrid – sidenote, their team looks like a hoot based upon their Twitter cover photo.) Flipgrid’s website touts their product as: “Flipgrid is where your students go to share ideas and learn together. It’s where students amplify and…
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Women of Washington’s Era
“Remember the ladies” is perhaps one of the most famous lines by a woman of the Revolutionary Era. Abagail Adams pleaded with her husband John that women be included in some way in the new government. Abigail’s station in life afforded her the privilege of being able to express her desire for rights as other…
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iPad: Let Students Show What They Know!
When I was one of the teachers chosen to be a part of our school’s iPad pilot group I was over-the-top excited. I couldn’t wait to get this revolutionary device into my classroom to enhance my students’ learning and, of course, to have some of the most awesome lesson plans in the building. I dreamed…