0 Chart Your Path: Navigating Massachusetts' Education Initiatives

I'm all for moving education ahead and meeting students' needs with the best of our intellect, energy, care, and attention.I'm also an advocate for creating structures, schedules, and routines that support...

0 The New School Year: Website Revision and Prep

The new school year is right around the corner, and just before I take a few days here and there for summer fun, I'm prepping the last few "paperwork" items for the school year ahead, items including:The...

0 Welcome to the Learning Design Lab

This lab is not a room or a business, but instead a collaborative effort represented by the Learning Design Lab website.Considerable reading and research, new content and evaluation standards, a grant...

0 4th Grade Unit Design: Place Value

After considerable research and reflection, I applied new learning to redesigning the place value unit. The new unit has many advantages including the following:Blended learning.Performance based.Easily...

0 ThingLing Math: Try It!

As I worked on growing my students' Khan project this morning, I finally played with ThingLing.Click each part of the image below and it will lead you to explanations and other helpful information.  This...

0 Growing the "Khan" Project

Place Value Poster ExemplarJust think it was only a couple of years ago that Kahn's math videos spread like wildfire throughout the Internet. In many ways, the number, variety, and depth of the films...

0 Learning Design 2013: Shortlist of Ideas and Links

Thanks to a Wayland Public Schools Foundation grant and the support of our system-wide leadership, I was given a stipend to organize posts I collected for summer study. At first I thought I would create...