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Caring Classrooms: Setting Expectations and Rules Together!

Caring Classrooms: Setting Expectations and Rules Together!

Action Research, Featured Articles, The Shift, The Toolbox, Uncategorized July 12, 2015 at 2:42 pm Comments are Disabled

By Stacey Belisle A Saint C.A.R.E.S.! That’s what we say at Saint Croix Falls Elementary School. C.A.R.E.S. stands for Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self […]

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High/Low Books to Engage Reluctant Readers from 4th Grade Through High School

High/Low Books to Engage Reluctant Readers from 4th Grade Through High School

By Rita Platt If we want reluctant readers to read we have to give them books they want to read. That means helping them find […]

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Teachers, It’s Time to Rethink How You Communicate with Parents

Teachers, It’s Time to Rethink How You Communicate with Parents

By Rita Platt Guess what? That weekly newsletter you send home? I don’t read it. I’m truly sorry.  I’m a teacher too. I know how […]

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Tap Out! A Quick & Fun Way to Formatively Assess Almost Anything!

Tap Out! A Quick & Fun Way to Formatively Assess Almost Anything!

By Rita Platt Looking for a fresh, fun way to quickly and easily assess your students’ progress? Try having them   “Tap Out!” Step 1: […]

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Real or Fiction? On the Internet it’s Not Always Easy to Tell!

Real or Fiction? On the Internet it’s Not Always Easy to Tell!

Education 2.0, Featured Articles, The Toolbox July 4, 2015 at 12:04 pm Comments are Disabled

By Todd Fitzpatrick and Rita Platt We all know that the internet is a mix of the best and worst information on any given topic. […]

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Testing Does Not Equal Teaching

Testing Does Not Equal Teaching

Featured Articles April 24, 2015 at 5:47 pm Comments are Disabled

By Lori Fox Just this week my students began taking the Wisconsin Badger State Test. Prior to this week the test makers have made numerous […]

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Education Reform: Politics Trumps Reason

Education Reform: Politics Trumps Reason

Featured Articles, The Shift January 17, 2015 at 1:19 pm Comments are Disabled

By Rita Platt & John Wolfe  The arguments over educational reform have always been loud. But, recently, we feel they have risen to the “mad-man with an […]

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Ode on a Boring Inservice

Ode on a Boring Inservice

Featured Articles, The Shift, Uncategorized August 25, 2014 at 10:13 pm Comments are Disabled

Low Song By John Wolfe   (Composed and Revised during the October 5, 2010 Managing Projects& Setting Priorities Staff Training Session, 10:00 to 11:30)   […]

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Don’t EVER Say That Again! Our List of the Worst Buzz Words in Education

Don’t EVER Say That Again! Our List of the Worst Buzz Words in Education

Featured Articles, The Shift August 24, 2014 at 6:56 pm 5 comments

By John Wolfe and Rita Platt We HATE some of the latest buzz-words in education. Don’t get us wrong, we love teaching and learning. We […]

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Zealous Supporters and Detractors of the Common Core State Standards are Both Wrong

Zealous Supporters and Detractors of the Common Core State Standards are Both Wrong

By John Wolfe and Rita Platt A new poll has come out that suggests the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are losing teacher support. That […]

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