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At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’ll admit: I agree with those who suggest that close reading isn’t…
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Image by Gris M. via flickr Four years ago, as teachers began digging into the Common Core Learning Standards and…
Earlier this week, I recounted my first day of performance based assessment design with a new group of teachers and…
Over the last several years, I’ve spent a good deal of time facilitating performance based assessment design with quite a…