Jody sent this important link today: http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/tcag.htm

Please accept my thanks for all the bios that have come in and other blog posts. I will get to them. This standards based discussion, however, is something I want to keep front and center for now. Here is where

This is a comment by Drew that I don't want to lose so here it is as a blog entry. What he says here and what Robert is pointing to is nothing less than revolutionary. The recent discussion here on

This is republished from September, as it bears heavily on the current discussion: Robert in your May 8th blog entry on assessment you wrote:

Here is the rubric Robert is using, followed by some comments. How to use it? Personally, I am going to be talking to administrators about these two new suns we have found in our grading galaxy: Robert's Interpersonal Communication Mode, which to me means how are my

Since last May, Robert has nurtured a thread on this site about the Three Modes of Communication (ACTFL). Vastly simplified, what I am hearing him say in this thread is that we are moving into a time, an unavoidable time,

Should the artist be instructed to draw randomly or with six panels? I say that the drawings should be contained in six (horizontal) panels. The artist draws what they hear during the story or the PQA - it doesn't matter -

Estimados colegas, I have written about this before, but I feel like I really need to get a better handle on this issue. I have some ideas here, but I need some more. In order to accurately assess our students, it seems

In a recent comment here Robert wrote: