Collaborative planning has been key to improving teaching and learning in our school buildings. My position has me split between two schools and in order to make the biggest impact on student learning, I have chosen to spend my time ONLY doing things that make a difference for teachers and students. One of the things I choose to spend my time doing, is collaboratively planning with teachers. Amongst all of the need, the classes for which I collaboratively plan are the bright

I’ve recently thought a lot about Ron Berger’s assertions in Leaders of Their Own Learning. As suggested by the title, we should strive to give our students agency. The greatest success I’ve had with this practice comes as my USM students and I step from semester I to semester II in our two-part course on Proficiency-Based Planning and Assessment. I ask them to generate a list of everything they still want to learn about proficiency-based assessment and I build the plan for o