Teachers can help students develop their social and emotional skills as they monitor and evaluate their own learning experiences.

Wellness is considered foundational to the Portrait, recognizing that academic growth is inseparable from physical, emotional, and mental well-being. The community wanted a vision of success that ...

Everyone has a unique learning superpower! Take a moment to think about how you approach learning. What do you rely on most when solving problems or studying? How does your chosen superpower help you ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Design an explicit, three-part learning sequence: The learning sequence starts with a pre-visit phase, followed by an outdoor visit phase, followed by a post-visit phase. Each part of the sequence ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is now a reality in higher education, with students and professors integrating chatbots into teaching, learning and assessment. But this isn’t just a ...

I just finished reading (for the third time) the outstanding Commentary by Eric Fox in the Dec. 14, 2011, issue (“Reflections From the Classroom: Every Child Is At Risk”). In this powerful essay, Mr.

This is not how most schools would describe their classrooms, but for Bais Rochel Leah High School students, this was the ...