One-Pagers: Enjoyable Assessment is NOT an Oxymoron
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Kim Essenburg’s Learn, Unlearn, & Relearn blog on October 10, 2020. A fun reading...
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Steven Levy
May 26, 20224 min read
How to Use a Textbook for Deeper Learning: A lesson for our times
I always used textbooks in my classes … but never how they were intended. They were valuable for me, as the teacher, to identify the...
Kim Essenburg
May 22, 20224 min read
Learning about Poetry: Making It Active and Visible
The classroom is charged with the energy of learning – students collaboratively working with text to build meaning. These are the teacher...
Steven Levy
May 19, 20222 min read
RAFTs: A Creative Way to Demonstrate Understanding
This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on April 14, 2020. Whether teaching on-line or face-to-face, RAFTs is an engaging...
Steven Levy
Apr 7, 20223 min read
Looking Under the Label: A Journey in Deeper Thinking
Exploring deeper learning through the study of ‘labels’ in a first grade classroom. Deeper Learning is not an exotic new curricular...
Christy Mactavish
Mar 20, 20224 min read
One Teacher at a Time: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…for His Purposes
You are fearfully and wonderfully made…for His purposes. This simple affirmation statement started as a daily prayer over my three sons...
Steven Levy
Mar 17, 20225 min read
The Third Way
The dualistic mind, upon which most of us were taught to rely, is simply incapable of the task of creating unity. It automatically...
Trent DeJong
Mar 15, 20225 min read
Lesson Learned 1: 4 Phases of Teaching (1/5)
Editor’s note: This is the first part of Trent DeJong’s series “Lessons Learned.” Stay tuned for the rest of the series: “What I Learned...
Peter Welle
Mar 8, 20224 min read
The Too Big and the Too Small
I love a good vision statement, but on many days they’re no help. I’m lucky enough to teach at a terrific Christian school, and I care a...
Dan Beerens
Feb 24, 20224 min read
Aligning Philosophy and Practice to Propel Potential
This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on March 8, 2016. I’ve been working in the past several years with schools that...
Steven Levy
Feb 17, 20225 min read
The Invitation to Learn
This article was originally published in the CACE Blog on October 2, 2019. I’ve worked with many teachers designing deeper...
Kim Essenburg
Feb 6, 20225 min read
What Are Students Learning? Ask Them!
This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on January 29, 2022. Fiction offers us a powerful marriage of information...
Kim Essenburg
Jan 30, 20223 min read
Hexagons Spur Collaborative and Creative Thinking!
This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on October 3, 2020. You need to be brave to try something you’re afraid of....
Kim Essenburg
Jan 23, 20224 min read
Six Questions for Growing Readers
This article was originally published in Kim Essenburg’s blog on September 19, 2020. The silence in a room full of reading students is...
Steven Levy
Jan 20, 20224 min read
Powerful Instructional Practices
A version of this article was previously published on the CACE Blog on February 27, 2018. “It is nothing but a pious wish and a grossly...
Justin Cook
Jan 11, 20223 min read
Three Dimensions of Learning Part II: Core Practices in the Dimensions of Learning
The contents of this article build on the excellent work of EL Education’s Dimensions of Student Achievement and were first published by...
Steven Levy
Jan 6, 20224 min read
Storytelling: Deeper Than Learning
A version of this article was originally published in the CACE Blog on November 29, 2018. The universe is made of stories, not atoms....
David Hoffner
Dec 5, 20213 min read
Engaging in Deeper Learning: Poor Economic Thinking Hurts the Poor
For fourteen years I taught AP Micro and Macroeconomics at Minnehaha Academy, and believe me when I tell you that I love ideas. The...
Kim Essenburg
Oct 26, 20213 min read
What Does Thinking Look Like?
This article was originally posted on Kim Essenburg’s blog on February 2, 2018. Over the years, I’ve stumbled upon exercises that really...
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