by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Apr 30, 2016 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Aligning Resources with Priorities, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Setting Goals, Using Data
Are you like me? It seems that no matter what I’m doing, I always seem to connect things back to education. I guess I know that teaching and learning is a vocation for me, not just a job. So I was in Spin class this morning and couldn’t stop thinking...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Mar 19, 2016 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Using Data
Monitoring and measurement are things that I know I am supposed to do in my role as Literacy Consultant, but it is something I find the most difficult to do. In a recent collaborative inquiry with teachers on inquiry-based learning, my colleague Sonia Racco and I...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Dec 27, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Using Data
There is no paucity of articles bemoaning the state of professional learning and providing suggestions as to what to do about this. I have been collecting articles about this since I began the draft version of this post back in August. Doug Peterson’s post,...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Nov 15, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Using Data
I was recently at the Bring It Together conference (BIT15) and engaged in an interesting conversation about using Periscope in Education, moderated by Andrew Campbell. We covered many important nuances on the topic, but what resonated with me, in particular was...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Apr 18, 2015 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Using Data
“Literacy continues to evolve as the world changes and its demands shift and become more complex. Literacy is not only used for reading and writing, but also to increase one’s understanding of the world.” –Adolescent Literacy Guide, Ministry of Education...