quick check in

Tonight was our first Portfolio Night of the school year--a wonderful evening as usual, but I am exhausted so I just want to jot a few notes to expand on later...

1. more on portfolio assessment..how I use it, how it reflects MI thinking (for students & teachers)

2. got some advice on our big loom from our class parent art teacher, aka weaving resource

3. our new MI question of the session: what matters to you? what is important to you?

* responses

* the power of semantics when attempting to assess understanding

4. a new problem: too much to do, too little time

5. Yo Yo Ma--genius/intelligence/music and what we value

I hope to address each of these points(or cryptic notes as I'm sure they seem!) in my next few posts, with a bit more energy, after a lot more sleep! more soon....