Place Based Education
Posts by Mary Ryerse
Leadership
PODs in Action: Teachers Engage in Productive Peer Feedback
By: Mary Ryerse, Tamara Hall, and Michelle Berkeley. Incorporating new methods and tools like the POD cycle can have a significant and meaningful impact on the success of a formative assessment classroom.
STEM & Maker
Smart Review | Root Robot
Mary Ryerse and her son Luke review Root Robot from the perspective of a kid and parent. Here's what they learned from their experience with the “little robot with a lot of possibilities."
Leadership
Building a Collaborative Culture: From Inspiration to Application
By: Mary Ryerse and Bob Rosenfeld. Creating a collaborative culture takes time and remains a continual process. This post explores how formative assessment can help.
Leadership
The Power of Teacher-to-Teacher Observations: A Formative Assessment Field Trip
A group of teachers recently set out on an adventure to conduct classroom observations and to seek out answers to some of their key questions about formative assessment. Here's what they learned.
Personalized Learning
How I Know: Impacting the Classroom through Student-Driven Learning in Dallas
In Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD), as teachers work to embed new social studies and language arts curricular resources, there is a special focus on student-driven learning. This post explores the significant role played by formative assessment.
Network Effect
Who You Know: Relationships are an Undervalued Asset for Students
By: Mary Ryerse and Michelle Berkeley. What happens when we help develop students' social capital? Mary and Michelle share what they learned in Julia Freeland Fisher's new book, Who You Know.
Leadership
Upstream Arts and the Power of Unique Abilities
Discover how one organization uses the power of the creative arts to activate and amplify the voice and choice of its students.
Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning and the Performing Arts: A Match Made in Heaven
By: Mary Ryerse and Emily Liebtag. We recently came across "one of the coolest examples of project-based learning" that they have recently seen. When paired with Performing Arts, PBL does not only promote creativity—it inspires.
Competency-Based Education
The Research Base for Formative Assessment
Many believe that formative assessment is an important part of the learning process but how does it work? Mary Ryerse and Susan Brookhart break down the research.
SEL & Mindset
How I Know: Austin ISD Focuses on Social Emotional Learning
Austin ISD emphasizes the importance of relationships as a common thread that helps the district integrate efforts around two of their key focus areas: formative assessment practice and Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Learn more here.