Rob Fleisher

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Using Data to Drive District Success

The best way to get your team behind a big goal “Year-end tests are autopsies, not assessments: they explain what went wrong after it is too late to change...

Rob Fleisher

July 26, 2017 5 min read

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Ditching the Test Prep Doldrums

Keeping students engaged in rigorous work I began teaching in Washington D.C. in 2010. The year before, the city released the following question as a possible prompt that 7th...

Rob Fleisher

July 26, 2017 4 min read

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Add Rigor and Engagement to your Next Novel Unit

Use CommonLit’s Book Pairings to push your students’ thinking English standards from around the country demand a lot of teachers. For example: * Texas says that middle schoolers should “read...

Rob Fleisher

July 23, 2017 4 min read

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Driving Discussion with the Socratic Method

In this post, teacher Cara Popecki shares advice for building a student-centered class dialogue. Socrates was on to something when he pushed his student Plato to the pinnacle of...

Rob Fleisher

July 14, 2017 4 min read

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The 7 Hallmarks of Effective Feedback

In this guest post, educator Liz Nell describes how to take your feedback to the next level. As educators, we inherently know that feedback is important. But why is feedback...

Rob Fleisher

July 14, 2017 5 min read

Meagan’s Story

Social Studies Needs Literacy Too! Meagan’s husband often asks her, “Don’t you have enough to do?” Her response is usually a chuckle, followed by, “No, I need more!...

Rob Fleisher

July 13, 2017 2 min read

Transformative Tools for ELLs and Struggling Readers

Make reading accessible for all of your students Before I joined the team at CommonLit, I was a Special Education middle school reading and writing teacher. In the classes I...

Rob Fleisher

July 7, 2017 2 min read

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Kimberly's Story

Inspiring the next generation of STEM students After working 25 years in the tech industry, Kimberly was compelled to switch gears and become a science teacher. Recent college grads had...

Rob Fleisher

October 1, 2016 3 min read

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