Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
I've been looking to address some of the feedback students gave me about term 1 . Specifically in this post I'll address my first steps to try and do something about the lack of connection between standards and content and goals and progress monitoring. The first step I'm taking is to revamp my student progress monitoring process. Previously, I have had students record their progress in a unit on a single Google Doc. I've explained the process in a previous post. I found that process was good for some things, but the reporting of numbers didn't require true depth and the ability to revisit the student created goal. So, I've ditched that model in favor of a document that asks students to report more in depth on each objective identify strengths, room for growth, and a plan for improvement. The idea is to fill this out several times as the unit progresses so that students can reflect on their progress towards objective mastery. This may be done af