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6 Key Questions to Build Better Rubrics

For decades, I’ve supported teachers in developing problem-based performance tasks and project-based learning assessments. One thing I’ve...

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The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste Test

AKA “Is everything in the rubric equally important to assess?” This activity was co-created by Alysa Cummings and Karin Hess while...

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Looking for rigor? Here are 6 places to find it in your classroom.

What does it look and sound like when your students are doing rigorous work and thinking deeply? Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of...

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To scaffold or not to scaffold? The first big misconception about rigor.

[Originally published by Renaissance Learning] Think back to the last really rigorous and complex task that you worked on. Did you...

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A Roadmap for Student Self-Direction: Building Essential Skills for the Future

[Published November 2020 by Students at the Center] Research tells us and both employers and colleges confirm that communication,...

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3 Ingredients for Effective Distance Learning

(Originally posted May 13, 2020) When our governor declared in March that learning would continue while schools are closed, he added that...

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Deepening Student Understanding with Collaborative Discourse

(Originally posted April 4, 2019.) Most educators can agree that asking students to engage deeply with the content they are learning is...

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College & Career Readiness

College and career readiness includes expectations that students demonstrate deep conceptual understanding through the application of...

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About the Learning Progressions Frameworks (LPFs)

Visit Focus Area In 2010, as the Common Core State Standards were simultaneously being developed, Dr. Karin Hess was charged to recruit...

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