by Heather MacCorkle | Apr 11, 2017 | Education, Learning, Teaching
Creating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Finally Canva The image below is a novice’s attempt at creating an infographic. It took over a week to conclude that trying to create this monster with Illustrator or Photoshop was an...
by Heather MacCorkle | Apr 4, 2017 | Education, Learning, Teaching
In this presentation, you will learn more about my vision for a standards-based classroom: what it would look like, how it would be run, and how students’ progress would be recorded and reported. [grassblade] This is the final presentation in a series of three....
by Heather MacCorkle | Mar 29, 2017 | Education, Learning, Teaching
During this module, we will investigate standards in more detail. Specifically, we will review: How standards are organized (subject area, strand / standard area, standard) The difference between learning objectives and standards The process used to unpack standards...
by Heather MacCorkle | Mar 27, 2017 | Education, Learning
Standards-based education is a complicated departure from traditional education strategies. For many educators, it creates cognitive dissonance, a discomfort one feels when trying to adopt a new view that is dramatically different from the one they have held. By...
by Heather MacCorkle | Sep 25, 2016 | Education, Learning, Politics
Diane Ravitch published a book in 2010 that every educator (teacher, administrator, and faculty support person) should read, called The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education. In it, she speaks of the...
by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 31, 2016 | Education, Learning
I practice martial arts – not well, mind you, but with enthusiasm. I am also a teacher who devours books for breakfast. Because of my work with a software company, I am also interested in the software development process. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half...
