Radical test prep
April is test-prep month (apparently). So, what better use of my blog than to provide harried readers with some test-prep …
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An excerpt from our just-released book on Essential Questions
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of the just-released book Essential Questions: Opening Doorways to Student Understanding, written …
On strategy, part 2: response to feedback on earlier post about the mess of ‘reading strategies’
I received a big batch of e-mail, blog replies, and face-to-face feedback in response to my recent post on the …
Webinar on design thinking
On Thursday, we did a live webinar on design thinking involving me, David Jakes, Don Buckley; and moderated by my …
On so-called ‘reading strategies’ – the utter mess that is the literature and advice to teachers
Note: I made a few edits for clarity to this post, based on some early feedback. strat·e·gy [strat-i-jee] noun, plural …
The E. Tipp middle school problem solvers, part 3
Readers of the blog have come to know and love hearing about the algebra whiz kids from East Tipp Middle …
The power of modeling and performance: a guest post on the Suzuki method of music teaching
As I lay on the beach in Costa Rica chillin’ with my friend and colleague Jay McTighe, I have a …
The E. Tipp middle school problem solvers, part 2
As readers of the blog know, I had a delightful exchange recently with Tom Rice and his middle school algebra …
The budding mathematicians at East Tipp Middle School and the mystery of the lost information
I received an email a few weeks ago from a math teacher: Hello, Dr. Wiggins – My students and I …
Autonomy and the need to back off by design as teachers
My greatest learning as a teacher came on the soccer field. We had been working for a few weeks …
