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Curriculum Episodes

Oct. 22, 2024

How to Design Your Student Assessments in Five Easy Steps (Nicole Dim…

Assessment of student learning is critical if we are to get a true sense of what students know and can do before, during, and after teaching. Join me and my next guest, Nicole Dimich, as we discuss her book - Design in Five. ...

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Oct. 15, 2024

How to Think of Teaching as a Series of Building Blocks (Gretchen Bri…

Join me and my guest Gretchen Bridgers and I as we discuss her latest book - Always a Lesson. In it, and in our conversation, Gretchen discusses the four building blocks of teaching that must be considered, in order, for teac...

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June 11, 2024

How to Write a Strategic and Engaging Curriculum Unit (Maria Nielsen)

In this episode, we speak with Maria Nielsen - former school principal, current education consultant, and author of the new Solution Tree book - 15 Day Challenge: Simplify and Energize Your PLC at Work. We discuss how to writ...

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Feb. 13, 2024

How to Craft Quality Learning Objectives (Marine Freibrun and Sandy B…

In this episode, the authors of the Formative Assessment Handbook, Marine Freiburn and Sandy Brunet, and I discuss how to craft learning intentions that then allow teachers to align assessment and student engagement to those ...

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