This post provides a deeper look into the ideas of equity of opportunity, one of JumpRope’s Core Values. Many of us know from years of studying backward design and turning to Wiggins and McTighe for inspiration and guidance that our best planning begins with the end. We need to be very clear on what we want our students to know, understand, and be able to do before we begin instruction. One of the tools I like to use and that I ask all of my graduate students to use is an ass

This post provides a deeper look into the ideas of the continuous improvement cycle, one of JumpRope’s Core Values, from the perspective of a building or district leader. As a building administrator, and then later as a district curriculum coordinator, I was always looking at data. State testing data, as well as the host of standardized, benchmarking assessment data that I had access to, provided me a way to investigate how we, the school or district, were doing. As I combed