December 2, 2015

Two big roadblocks to success in our CI classrooms are: There are severe time limits. So much time is needed to show real gains – far more time than we have. We teach students who for the most part can only think in terms of what is on a test. I won’t even mention administrators and […]

I just started free writes in my beginning classes, after months of stories. The kids love to write them. They love to count their words. One student, over the past three free writes (over a 2 week period) improved from 44 to 55 to 66 words. That will make a nice bar graph to show