Ideas, insights, and inspiration from the
Authentic Education Team

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
I will share how I took an existing unit back to the drawing board to “UbD it” through workshops, feedback, and simple trial and error.
A big breakthrough for me came in the form of UbD backwards design, and as I learned and adopted its framework, I reevaluated my intended goals for students as whole mathematicians.
In my 100th blog post I complained about the course called ‘algebra’. Some commenters misunderstood the complaint. Though […]
An idea is “big” if it helps us make sense of lots of confusing experiences & seemingly isolated facts. A big idea is a way of seeing better & working smarter.