Author: Todd Conaway

What are the features of assessment that make it a valuable practice? We stood at the top of the grassy hill looking down the slope. My daughter was just out of training wheels and had yet to master moving forward

Today I had a great conversation with several teachers about tools and teaching. We wandered about challenges and opportunities and it was what I love: wondering about teaching and learning. But, near the end, one of the less “techy” teachers

This morning I got the ITC email with an invite to write something for their quad-annual newsletter. I have written a few for them and they printed them. Very nice. Maybe this one too? So this morning this happened so I

I was very lucky to be an English teacher at a high school. The school was privately owned and I had some latitude in how and what I taught. I also was able to take a lot of students into

I just returned home and opened the refrigerator and began eating a beet with salt over the sink. I was staring out the window when it occurred to me. Again. I am never “Going back to work.” And I’ll tell

We have exactly zero teachers who write about the art of teaching in any consistent form. They think about teaching and talk about it a lot. They are great teachers. But they do not write about it or share their

This year I get to do a short presentation about “marketing yourself” online. I figure I will just use what I know, which makes sense. I have an image here and all the rest is linked right here on this site. Now