Christine Foote, an Instructional Coach with the Lakewood City Schools facilitated a dynamite presentation during the Middle and High School Network Meetings in January. Listen below for her presentation, keeping in mind that this was a live discussion. There are times when participants without mics interacted and there is also a spot where Christine had some unknown mic trouble (fuzzy noise). 
Listen and Learn:
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Tags: christine foote, formative assessment, lakewood, westerville

I am in Boston at the Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children. Throughout the morning and afternoon, I attended a series of UDL presentations hosted by Grace Meo and David Rose, among others. Following lunch, David introduced the 1:15 session with a comment reflecting CAST’s beliefs regarding intervention, assessment, curriculum and children. David’s comment [...]

Tags: cast, convention, council for exceptional children, curriculum, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

During the PD I attended last week, our presenter asked how we provide students with descriptive feedback.
As I looked around the room, observing grade-level groups of teachers, huddled around chart paper, listing techniques used - I couldn’t help but wonder, “Do stickers count as descriptive feedback?”
Since I don’t have a grade-level, I decided to create a quick list of [...]

Tags: feedback, Technology

Available exclusively on Thinkfinity.org, the VLP-SAT assists program staff, including administrators, teachers and volunteers, in improving instruction and assessment that result in measureable literacy achievement for students across the life span.

We use technology because:

Technology, if used well, enhances, enlivens and enriches the content of our lessons.
Technology engages students in learning.
Technology helps to create dynamic learning environments that simulate real-life scenarios.
Technology allows us to communicate, share, explore, collaborate and connect with others, often in distant places and diverse spaces.
Technology helps [...]

Hello Trumbull UDLers!
As promised, linked below is my Technology Time PowerPoint show from the October -3 UDL Institute. I enjoyed meeting you and hope the session was helpful!
I cleaned-up the ppt a bit. The presentation was originally whipped together at 10:45pm Monday night, based on your Day 1 feedback and requests for more time in [...]

Perhaps you are like me and have noticed that some students believe everything they see on the Internet.
Do you sometimes wonder if the digital natives are truly adept Internet users?
Are you aware that Ohio has Academic Content Standards for Information Literacy and that these standards are embedded in the tested curriculum?
TRAILS 9, a Tool [...]