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Here are highlights of the assignments I submitted for the teacher training program I attended, Teach Now, in the fall of 2015:

• How High-stakes Assessments Are Impacting Students, Teachers, and Schools (blog post)
• Survey of Teacher Effectiveness (Surveymonkey) Ten questions that get to the point.
• Grading, 21st Century-Style (infographic) What should be the purpose of a grading system? Why "student-centered"?
• Communicating Progress to Parents (Flipsnack PDF) How to conduct a parent teacher conference to explain three scenarios to parents of students in a 7th grade social studies class.
• Considering Teacher Evaluation (blog post)
• Specific Feedback and Praise (Powtoon animated video) 3 scenarios focusing on praising effort – it’s about growth. If you praise intelligence, you may set them up to want to avoid risking failure.
• On pre-assessment and innovative differentiation strategies (blog post)
• Rubric for Social Studies Unit (doc) focusing on student presentation skills (blog post)
• Planning Assessments (blog post)
• Applying Standards (blog post)
• Standards and Backward Mapping (blog post)
• Effectiveness of a Teaching Unit Strategy (YouTube): An examination of using simulations to help students understand lessons
• Teaching strategies to differentiate instruction for students with different learning profiles (mind map): for 8th grade social studies
• Social Studies Strategies (Live Binder)
• Scaffolding Teaching Strategies (Mind Map)
• 5 Objectives to Meet the Standard (infographic): 5 SMART lesson objectives to promote student learning related to a defined standard, per course History of Christianity II: Reformation to the Present
• Unpacking a Standard (Prezi): Goals to guide the curriculum, per course History of Christianity II: Reformation to the Present
• Applying Classroom Rules and Procedures (blog post)
• Teacher methods to support high student performance (blog post)
• Developing a Positive Relationship with Students (Prezi)
• Academic expectations of teachers, schools, and parent in the US (blog post)
• PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention and Support): What It Is and Why It Matters (infographic)
• On teaching strategies that improve the achievement of low-performing students (Flipsnack PDF): Understand the expectations one carries for different students; increase positive attention on low-performing students; have ways to get them to a positive response, despite resistance
• Classroom Rules and Procedures (Prezi)
• Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate (blog post)
• Our digital profiles and the lifelong task of curating them (blog post)
• Survey of Functional Geography: Applying 21st-Century Skills in a Student-Centered Mobile Activity (Voicethread)
• Slideshare on Proposed Podcast on Family Origins
• Education Future-cast (YouTube) Forecasting a bit of our future with technology affecting the field of education, particularly concerning our digital profiles and our new lifelong task of "curating" it.
• Students’ Use of Mobile Devices for Learning (blog post)
• Special Education Referrals in a Westchester School District (blog post)
• Beacon City School District Demographic and Achievement Performance (blog post)
• What is "Innovative Teaching and Learning"? (blog post)
• Brief History of US Education Law Pertaining to Student Testing (blog post)
• Why are the Common Core Standards So Closely Linked with High-Stakes Testing that Many Parents Find Onerous and Odious? (blog post)