Is Standardized Assessment Really Evil?

Find Your Marigold

This episode is inspired by the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast episode about Finding Your Marigold, finding the people to surround yourself with who can support your growth.

How to "Lazy Genius" Your 1st (or 20th) Year of Teaching

This episode uses the work of Kendra Adachi and her Lazy Genius Podcast and applies the strategies to teaching. Teaching is an incredibly difficult job. So much matters about what we do. Follow a few simple steps to help make small changes to your classroom day that get you back to what matters most to you.

Assessment Stamina

You will not find this topic in Educational Research, but it comes up in conversations with teachers all the time, Assessment Stamina. Whether or not students have the stamina to make it through an assessment is actually a symptom of the issue and not the root cause itself.

Is Standardized Assessment Really Evil?

Standardized Assessment is often blamed for issues in Education today. But that is not fair or accurate. Standardized Assessment will always be a part of Education. What we as teachers can focus on is how we approach the assessment and use the data. Here is a link to the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast on that mentions Learner Centered Test Prep. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/standardized-tests-what-to-do/

Assessment is a Verb

Instructional Agility by Cassandra Erkens, Tom Schimmer, and Nicole Dimich gives us a great perspective on how to see assessment as a verb and therefore occupy the same space as instruction.