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Kim Essenburg
May 31, 20223 min read
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...
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...
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...
Christy Mactavish
Jan 4, 20224 min read
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...
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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