This lesson builds on counting skills using an upbeat musical song. This is a foundational kindergarten concept and provides experience with rote counting, rythmic beat, and visual number recognition.  Students will begin to see the numeric patterning of numbers while singing the song.

3:06 video where Sal Kahn talks with Stanford Professor Carol Dweck about her research on the Growth Mindset. What is it? Why is it important?

This article contains a quiz to assess your motivation skills. It also includes steps to learn how to be better at motivating those around you.

We have created digital tracking tools so students can monitor their progress towards reaching the standards and learning targets in Math. Although these have been created as digital tools, they can easily be printed if students don’t have access to an electronic device. This is intended for grades one through six.

Free test prep for ACT, GRE, Vocab.  Parents, teachers, and counselors can monitor a student's progress by viewing real-time reports. 

A teacher uses peer feedback as a formative assessment in writing for kindergartners. They learn about areas of improvement within their writing from their peers and go back and make the revisions.

Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. Practical Leadership is an interactive seminar where students receive repeated coaching and real-time feedback on their own leadership capabilities from their peers and the instructor. The course is structured around a set of readings. However, the key component is each student's own self-assessment. These self-assessments are done by the students in the first week of the semester. The areas for improvement that the students identify are then targeted in the weekly role plays that are customized for each student in the class. The goal of the class is for each student to increase his or her own leadership abilities through an ongoing cycle of practice, feedback and reflection.

The template walks the students through the steps to make individual S.M.A.R.T. goal.

A teacher uses self-assessment as a formative practice within the classroom. Students self-assess their writing with a stop light system: green (confident with first draft), yellow (unsure and wants clarification), or red (needs support) based on a writing exemplar. Next, they partner with a student with an opposite color to provide feedback or obtain feedback. Finally students use the feedback to revise their writing.

In this lesson, the teacher demonstrates how to use a learning progression to assess a piece of writing and then asks the students to apply the progression to their own writing to make revisions.  The students have been writing informational texts to teach others about a topic.

A mini-poetry project allows students to practice public speaking, listening, and critical analysis skills. Students practice formative assessment throughout the unit by participating in peer assessments. Students use accountable talk to provide classmates with constructive feedback based on anecdotal notes taken during the podcast.  Students also participate in self-assessment and think about what skills they need to practice to meet proficiency.