Posts by Mary Ryerse
Personalized Learning
Kids Can Thank Mom by Making a Meal Themselves
Let me preface this section by saying I am not an expert at having kids make the meal. I always marveled at those parents who had an amazing menu plan and activated a rotation where everyone takes responsibility to cook one meal, rotate chores, and so on. We just haven’t been that family and our schedules have never felt that predictable. So, we’ve done more “opportunistic” cooking.
SEL & Mindset
Social and Emotional Learning Skills are Essential to Formative Assessment Practice
By: Mary Ryerse and Tom Vander Ark. Just as formative assessment informs the teaching and learning of math, reading and science skills, it can also provide essential guidance for the teaching of discrete SEL skills. Learn more about the relationship, and how to make the most of it, here.
Project-Based Learning
The Power of the Performing Arts: Music’s Message of Hope
Music can help change the world for the simple fact that it can help change people. It can also show students that they can make meaning, make change, make history, and much, much more.
SEL & Mindset
Kindness Starts with One: Random Acts of Kindness Week 2018
Random Acts of Kindness Week 2018 features developmentally appropriate, standards-aligned lessons that teach kids important social-emotional skills. More on how to take part here!
Competency-Based Education
Keys to Success for Formative Assessment: A Professional Learning Guide
In order for formative assessment to be effective, several conditions must be met by and for practitioners. This new guide, designed to be a tool for enhancing formative assessment in an easily sharable and printable format, outlines these conditions.
Leadership
The Student Role in Formative Assessment: How I Know Practitioner Guide
One of the key distinguishers of formative assessment lies in the relationship between a student and teacher in the shared ownership of assessing what students know and are able to do. This guide can help practitioners of formative assessment develop and hone that shared ownership.
Personalized Learning
Fueling a Vision of Student-Centered, Personalized Learning through Student Voice
My challenge to myself - and to all of us - today is to ask a handful of kids these two important questions: What do you want to learn? What do you want to do?
Leadership
Scaling Formative Assessment: The How I Know Project
We're excited to announce the launch of a new initiative, sponsored by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, designed to help teachers more effectively implement formative assessment. Learn more here.
STEM & Maker
Smart Review | Code Car Kit by Let’s Start Coding
The Let’s Start Coding products are a perfect next step for kids who have worked with basic electronics and basic coding and are now ready to move on to learn more about building and coding. Learn more here.
Competency-Based Education
Model Schools, Districts, Networks and States for Competency-Based Education
We’ve been looking into what schools, districts and networks are doing to achieve effective CBE, and we have assembled this initial list of positive examples.