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Authentic Education Team

AE delivers engaging, consequential, and enriching professional development for educators & we are excited to announce our Summer 2025 PD series.
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 […]
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.
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 part 1 of my reply to Willingham’s article on reading comprehension strategies published recently in […]
This is Part 1 of a 2-part response In a recent Washington Post article (excerpted from […]
Some not surprising but still depressing excerpts from the PISA Math Results, US results: Students in […]
My mother is an extraordinary person. Yesterday, while I made lunch for my son, father, and […]
Yes, we know: kids “don’t know much about history” in the words of the immortal Sam […]

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