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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

One Teacher at a Time: What does it mean to be made in God’s image?

There are moments in our lives when people are placed in our path to challenge us to clarify the way we communicate something. One of...

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...