If you’re going to be in Ohio in June, there are two events that you cannot miss. The first of these is #edcampcle taking place in Cleveland on Saturday, June 14. Wondering what an edcamp is? Check this out from the website: What is an EdCamp? When people attend professional conferences, they often remark that … Continue reading »
Flipping: The Gateway to Bigger and Better Things
Our most recent #ohedchat topic was flipping the classroom (archive here). The chat extended into several days as a small group of us continued chatting about education reform and big picture overhauls for the future of education. Jeremy Brueck (@brueckj23 on Twitter) made some fantastic points about how we’re getting lost in trivial conversations when … Continue reading »
Creating High Quality Assessments
I’m at the ODE “Connecting the Dots” conference today. The session I’m in right now (like, as I type this) is about designing high quality LEA assessments as SGM for SLO development. Because it fits so well with my post about SLOs, I had to share. Pair this post with my Layman’s term to help … Continue reading »
SLOs in Layman’s Terms (?) and What to do with HS?
I’ve been stewing on SLOs since January when legislation dictated that value-added teachers (reading and math grades 4-8) would now be required (as of 2014-2015) to have 50% of their evaluation based on value-added. I attended an SLO training in January, but left feeling….unsatisfied. So many of my questions were answered with “That’s an LEA” … Continue reading »
Writing and the 6+1 Traits
In another post I just got a really great question about using the 6+ 1 Traits of Writing and how they fit in the common core. With so much attention being paid to the reading aspects of the CCSS, it’s a great change to have questions about writing!
Pearltrees
My new FAVORITE curation tool is Pearltrees. I can sync pearltrees on ipad, desktop, phone, AND the district Blackboard page. Here’s my OTES pearltree for resources:
New Guidance Docs Released from PARCC Yesterday
New guidance documents from PARCC today are now posted on ODE’s Website. Because I’m a big dork who likes to read this stuff, I thought I’d take the liberty of highlighting and passing along to those of you who are less interested I’d encourage you to draw your attention to a couple of things: 1. … Continue reading »
OTES Day 1
For specifics about the framework, be sure to see Dwight Carter’s (@Dwight_Carter) blog after his three-days training. Today was my first of 3 OTES days, and I’m still feeling pretty good about that “left side” (or the performance piece) of the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System framework. (The “right side,” or the student growth side, is … Continue reading »
MS Language Arts: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Probably a subtitle more like: “Bravely going where no language arts teacher has gone before” might’ve been more appropriate. Our middle school language arts teachers have been on quite a journey this year, and we’re capping it off with our second joint meeting tomorrow (ALL 14 teachers from grades 6-8 at both MS buildings, plus … Continue reading »
BASA Updates for HB 555–A Cross Post
The following was posted on Hamilton School’s Director of Secondary Programs, Keith Millard. Find him on Twitter @scarletandgray and follow his blog at free ranging ideas Ohio Accountability Changes Update I had the good fortune yesterday to attend the BASA regional meeting in Dayton and have Michael Sawyers turn out to be the ODE speaker on … Continue reading »
