iGeneration - 21st Century Education

At Sammamish High School, our staff has dedicated our professional development to building expertise in the key elements of problem-based learning. Previous blog entries by my colleagues have given a

Quick ways to assess and celebrate learning in the classroom. With simple hand movements teachers and students can assess how learning in the classroom is progressing, and celebrate accomplishments by each other.

Startup education venture tracks students’ study habits, but does it go too far?

Select schools across Michigan are taking part this month in the first large-scale tryout of the Smarter Balanced Assessment, an innovative, online-only test that measures academic growth through adaptive questions.

This classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning.


The tips are organized to follow the arc of a project. First comes plan

You are sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture. The subject may be something that you find genuinely interesting. But at a certain point, attention erodes. The information begins to wash over you.

A recent blog by Grant Wiggins affirmed what I have long believed about creativity: it is a 21st-century skill we can teach and assess. Creativity fosters deeper learning, builds confidence and creat

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Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) - needs for online assessments

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.-Harry S. Truman Powerful teaching happens when teachers take information gained from observations and assessments of children's literacy de...

Peer review refers to the many ways in which students can share their creative and academic work with peers for constructive feedback and then use this feedback to revise and improve their work. This board explores the implementation of PR.