By Mark Heintz Last week, I celebrated my attempts to minimize the value placed on grades in order to focus on learning. In my prev...

By Mark Heintz In this episode of School Chat, I sat down with Bruce Janu, a history teacher at Elk Grove High School. We both r...

by Mark Heintz I struggle with grading.  Not keeping up with it, but rather assigning a grade as a measurement of learning.  Maybe ...

By Mark Heintz Jessica had a non-traditional path to becoming a teacher.  Her unique path of Elk Grove has lad her to embrace that mentali...

By Mark Heintz Patrick McGing is a Career and Technical Education teacher at Elk Grove High School that learns with his students.   His st...

By Mark Heintz In the fifth episode of School Chat, I sat down with veteran physical education teacher, Anthony Furman .  He is ever-evolv...

by Mark Heintz In the fourth episode of School Chat, I sat down with current sophomore, Natalia Habas.  She has an amazing perspective on ...

By Mark Heintz In this third episode of School Chat, I sat down Kate Glass a longtime educator sits down with me to discuss the changes...

By Mark Heintz This is this second episode of School Chat, I sat down Alyssa Trausch a current sophomore at Elk Grove High School.  She...

By: Rachel Vissing Last week I had the opportunity to see the musical Hamilton.  Though many would say I was late to the party, I had list...

By Daisy Crus and Jaina Pfister This is part of a blog series intended to document and define learning at Elk Grove High School through...

By Madison Reed, Jake Mizialko, Alexandra Glinski and Mark Heintz Emily Mikuzis reflected on learning in a previous post, but what do the...

By Alexander Danan, Margi Patel, Ryan Libiano and Mark Heintz Patrick McGing and I gave our insight into what learning looked like in Patr...

By Patrick McGing, Merlyn Manoj, Kaelyn Rittle, and Mark Heintz I was fortunate to visit Pat McGing's Intro to Engineering course a ...

By Kim Miklusak Often we hear people bemoan a perceived or real decrease in sustained reading in our students.  Teachers express frustrat...

By Mark Heintz Most moments each day are forgotten. Even though there are great, little moments each day, they affect us, then pass us by....

By Kim Miklusak In previous work in Emily Mikuzis ’ senior English 101 class, her students worked on exemplification—making a claim and...

By: Rachel Barry When I was a student, I was the true definition of a rote learner.  I also was very involved in extra-curricular activiti...

By Mark Heintz I have been going around school stopping students at random to hear what they feel teacher's do that impacts their...

By Melissa Curtis We’ve been hearing a lot about clear learning targets and meaningful feedback the last couple of years.  Many teacher...