Interesting Resources! Enjoy!
Middle School
A Parent's ToolKit for all grade levels
Association for Middle Level Education
Mindfulness
Mindfulness and Math
Mindfulness in Schools
Recent Mindfulness in School Research
Advisory
Making Connections with Advisory (Ellen D'More)
Creating a Culture of Connectedness through Middle School Advisory Programs (Sarah Brody Shulkind, Jack Foote)
Care in the Middle-Level Classroom (Williams, AMLE)
Inspirational Pieces (You can do it!)
The Difference One Word Can Make (Attias)
Assessment
Resources on Assessment
Readings
The Case Against the Zero (Douglas B. Reeves, "The Case Against the Zero," Phi Delta Kappan,Vol. 86, No. 4, December 2004, pp. 324-325)
Q&A: Misconceptions about Formative Assessment (Gerwetz)
Hope and Assessment: Advocates and Adversaries (Hillman)
5 Challenging Formative Assessment Questions (and how to solve them) (GDCF)
A Variety of Formative Assessment Tools
5 Questions about Feedback (Schimmer)
53 Ways to Check for Understanding (Edutopia) PRINTABLE!
Digital Media Exit Cards (Matt Levinson, Edutopia)
27 Ways to Check If your Student Learned anything (Mia, An Ethical Island)
Door Slap (Formative Assessment) (Social Studies Success Website)
56 Different Examples of Formative Assessment (David Wees, New Visions for Public Schools)
10 Assessments you can perform in 90 Seconds (Terry Heick, Te@chthough)
Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit (Mickey McFetridge)
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding (Todd Finley, Edutopia)
60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques (Levy County Schools, FL)
Rubrics
What are rubrics and why are they important? (Brookhart, ASCD, Chapter 1 from: How to Create Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading)
More Progressive Ways to Measure Deeper Levels of Learning (Mind/Shift, Schwartz (2014))
Could Rubric Grading Be the Assessment of the Future? (Mind/Shift, Schwartz (2014))
Sample Rubrics/Ideas about how to create rubrics
Resources for using Rubrics in the Middle Grades (Edutopia)
Technology and Teens
DIGITAL PARENTING PRESENTATION for MS Parents @SIS
Why some 13 year-olds check social media 100 times a day. (CNN, 10/2015)
What parents need to know when kids are on social media (CNN, 1/2016)
The Big Disconnect (NAIS, Steiner-Adair, 2015)
Class Discussion Strategies
Hand's not raised? Too bad, I'm calling on you anyway (Washington Post, Strauss, (2016))
Pick me! Pick me! Experimenting with discussion interventions (AMLE, Anderson (2016))
Academic Integrity
Inside the Cheater's Mind (The New Yorker, Konnikova (2013))
Memorization, Cheating and Technology (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Hippensteel, 2015)
Our Buggy Moral Code (TedTalk, Ariely, 2009)
Middle School
A Parent's ToolKit for all grade levels
Association for Middle Level Education
Mindfulness
Mindfulness and Math
Mindfulness in Schools
Recent Mindfulness in School Research
Advisory
Making Connections with Advisory (Ellen D'More)
Creating a Culture of Connectedness through Middle School Advisory Programs (Sarah Brody Shulkind, Jack Foote)
Care in the Middle-Level Classroom (Williams, AMLE)
Inspirational Pieces (You can do it!)
The Difference One Word Can Make (Attias)
Assessment
Resources on Assessment
Readings
The Case Against the Zero (Douglas B. Reeves, "The Case Against the Zero," Phi Delta Kappan,Vol. 86, No. 4, December 2004, pp. 324-325)
Q&A: Misconceptions about Formative Assessment (Gerwetz)
Hope and Assessment: Advocates and Adversaries (Hillman)
5 Challenging Formative Assessment Questions (and how to solve them) (GDCF)
A Variety of Formative Assessment Tools
5 Questions about Feedback (Schimmer)
53 Ways to Check for Understanding (Edutopia) PRINTABLE!
Digital Media Exit Cards (Matt Levinson, Edutopia)
27 Ways to Check If your Student Learned anything (Mia, An Ethical Island)
Door Slap (Formative Assessment) (Social Studies Success Website)
56 Different Examples of Formative Assessment (David Wees, New Visions for Public Schools)
10 Assessments you can perform in 90 Seconds (Terry Heick, Te@chthough)
Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit (Mickey McFetridge)
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding (Todd Finley, Edutopia)
60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques (Levy County Schools, FL)
Rubrics
What are rubrics and why are they important? (Brookhart, ASCD, Chapter 1 from: How to Create Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading)
More Progressive Ways to Measure Deeper Levels of Learning (Mind/Shift, Schwartz (2014))
Could Rubric Grading Be the Assessment of the Future? (Mind/Shift, Schwartz (2014))
Sample Rubrics/Ideas about how to create rubrics
Resources for using Rubrics in the Middle Grades (Edutopia)
Technology and Teens
DIGITAL PARENTING PRESENTATION for MS Parents @SIS
Why some 13 year-olds check social media 100 times a day. (CNN, 10/2015)
What parents need to know when kids are on social media (CNN, 1/2016)
The Big Disconnect (NAIS, Steiner-Adair, 2015)
Class Discussion Strategies
Hand's not raised? Too bad, I'm calling on you anyway (Washington Post, Strauss, (2016))
Pick me! Pick me! Experimenting with discussion interventions (AMLE, Anderson (2016))
Academic Integrity
Inside the Cheater's Mind (The New Yorker, Konnikova (2013))
Memorization, Cheating and Technology (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Hippensteel, 2015)
Our Buggy Moral Code (TedTalk, Ariely, 2009)