Ideas, insights, and inspiration from the
Authentic Education Team

UbD Gardening
Developing nature-based curricula through the UbD framework takes outdoor learning from an exciting bonus to a meaningful practice.
Letting go of activities in the classroom to simplify your teaching life is hard and it’s essential for growth, making space for new things, & to avoid burnout.
Despite questions on homework 1 thing is certain: it must be structured with the same intention as classroom learning (in our case, UbD) if it's to be of value.
Materials, resources, tools & training providing effective, research-based instruction to develop all aspects of literacy for many kinds of students.
A blog series exploring how AI chatbots are reshaping learning and what we can do about […]
As I entered the bright, beautiful classroom my first year of teaching, the first thing that […]
As readers may know, my article on feedback in the September edition of Educational Leadership has […]
A cardinal principle in aiming at understanding is that understanding requires different pedagogy than acquisition of […]
It being the fall, my thoughts have turned to soccer – a topic near and dear […]
What if you read the following in the sports section: “WISCONSIN appears to be in the driver’s […]