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Authentic Education Team
One of the most powerful tools educators have is asking ourselves “How do I know?” We must interrogate evidence we come across even in our own classrooms.
In my last post, I talked about my journey to understanding how language instruction fits into […]
A primary goal of UbD is to make meaning of learning by way of “big ideas” and to transfer learning and this can be applied to all subject areas.
EdWeek’s “The Teaching Profession in 2022 (in Charts)” article by Madeline Will explored the challenges that […]
The power of knowing my students as readers and leveraging this knowledge to help guide and shape their journey as readers and spellers has been transformative.
Fights over whether teaching systematic phonics & word study is essential pulls focus away from doing the actual work of learning about what our students need
As AE’s President, I am delighted and humbled to follow in the footsteps of Grant Wiggins and Denise Wilbur in this next chapter for Authentic Education.
In my last two posts, I explored examples of Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions (EUs and […]
Before I started planning math units using the Understanding by Design framework, I frequently found myself […]
Educators introducing UbD into their classroom might should not worry that Essential Questions feel lofty or above an elementary understanding.
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