by Heather MacCorkle | May 15, 2014 | Education, Learning, Politics, Teaching
Caution: Some of the tweets are rather radical. It’s still good to know what people are saying, though, so I will let the twitter widget remain. Tweets about “#CommonCore” // Related articles Is Common Core facing death by a thousand cuts? The...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jan 7, 2014 | Education, Learning, Politics, Teaching
In the post on standards-based grading, I asked a couple of questions at the end of the post. Basically, I was asking about the difference between learning and academic success. If you are new to education, you may have heard the term, “doing school” or...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 25, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
In the interest of full disclosure, I work for a company that develops, markets, and sells software to K-12 institutions, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and the company is not responsible for them. The software includes an SIS (Student Information...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 20, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching, Writing
I finished the book! First, it’s good that we did not read the introduction first, or I think that is the lens that we would be looking through as we read the story. We would know that people did not consider the work to be a stellar piece of...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 16, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
See on Scoop.it – 21st Century Education and Teaching {12 Days: 12 Tools} has been fun to share with you. Hopefully I’ve shared tools that will be of benefit to you and your colleagues. I trust as well that many of these strategies will contribute to...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 8, 2013 | Education, Learning, Teaching
See on Scoop.it – 21st Century Education and Teaching ‘It doesn’t matter how my students learn best.’ Heather MacCorkle Edick’s insight: The comments on this article are actually more interesting than the article itself. There are a...
