Ideas, insights, and inspiration from the
Authentic Education Team

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 […]
A blog series exploring how AI chatbots are reshaping learning and what we can do about […]
Before I started planning math units using the Understanding by Design framework, I frequently found myself […]
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 […]
In a previous post, I posed the question – based on student survey data and my […]