The first trimester has ended and our 7th grade Digital Literacy course has come to an end.  For those who attended in person or followed along online, here’s a hyper-linked list of the topics we explored: OneNote: An Electronic Notebook Website Evaluation: Be a Critical Consumer Delicious: Social Bookmarking Effective Search Strategies: Keywords are Key [...]

Yesterday our Head of School lead an Understanding By Design (UBD) workshop for the middle school faculty.  When discussing the assessment process, she stressed the need to create assessments that: Reveal deep and important understandings Core Performance Assessment Provide information about what students know about the topic Short answer quizzes and tests, guided response, timelines, [...]

The word “direction” seems to be something of a rallying cry for change as of late.  Both presidential candidates have spoken at length about the new “direction” each would take the country if elected.  Faced with a sluggish economy, a number of high-profile CEOs and CFOs have discussed changing the “direction” of their companies in [...]