Throughout this course, my understanding of creativity has expanded from something intuitive to something intentional, structured, and deeply relational. I’ve always felt creative, but I now recognize the many ways creativity already lives in my practice—through problem-solving, visual design, boundary-pushing, and building learning experiences that invite curiosity. I also see how every learner, teacher or student, expresses creativity differently, and how important it is to

Over the last few months I have been spending some time exploring assessment theory. During this time my understanding of assessment has shifted in meaningful ways. Firstly, I realized that many of concepts around designing engaging tasks, supporting equity, and prioritizing student growth were already present in my teaching. However, this learning journey has given me a deeper and more theoretically grounded sense of what it means to design intentional, authentic, and equita

How can teachers truly see the bigger picture of student learning? In today’s classrooms, relying solely on numerical grades or written feedback often provides an incomplete view. By combining feedback types, teachers can better interpret individual understanding, identify class-wide patterns, and refine assessment design, supporting both student growth and more equitable, data-informed decisions. In an upcoming summative assessment, students will be asked to create a forensi

Reconsidering What Counts as Learning As I continue exploring digital assessment, I have been reflecting on one of the assessments that I worked on: a Virtual Autopsy Simulation  paired with an EdPuzzle  activity. Thinking about what technology adds and complicates in the process of learning and assessment has prompted me to question what counts as evidence of understanding and how digital traces shape our perception of student learning. Screen shot of he Virtual Autopsy by t

When I was given the challenge of designing an assessment that combined a standardized test  and a concept map , I initially felt stuck. These two formats seemed to belong to opposite worlds—one rigid and summative, the other open and exploratory. Standardized tests are often seen as endpoints, the final measure of what students know. Concept maps, on the other hand, are tools for building and showing connections between ideas. Yet it was precisely this tension—the constraint

Image: Action plan overview. Created on Gemini This week in my course, we read Enhancing Equity in the Classroom by teaching for mathematical creativity. What struck me the most was how we are so focused on content, and we leave little room for fun. I recalled the Fermi problems that my instructor would give us in my "Teaching for Maths" Course during my teacher training, and about how my school is encouraging teachers to do bell-ringers or use our "block rotation time" for n

Image created using Gemini Pro When I think about my worst assessment, I return to university and the final exam for my Crime Scene...

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Just me taking a look at who I am as a leader!

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This week, I was tasked to redesign a learning space, either virtual or physical, and at first I was a little nervous. I often have...

In today's classrooms, understanding and responding to diverse student needs is crucial. Integrating peer and instructor feedback into a...