Mr. Gillespie's Office

As a high school history teacher, I struggled to balance Virginia's state standards (SOLs) standards with bringing...

A couple of weeks ago, a Washington Post article stated, “Reading scores for the Virginia Standards of Learning test dropped by do...

Through a meta-analysis of over 900 studies, John Hattie’s Visible Learning evaluated the impact of many factors on student achievement. ...

The other day, Ms. Snider approached me with a simple query, “Do you have a minute to discuss grading of my group proj...

On Friday night, like many educators, I found myself watching CBS’s Teach. Within minutes though, I found my mind wandering and my frustrat...

We can’t expect students to be autonomous and creative when we tell them exactly what to do. Instead let’s aim to point students in the rig...

Every two and a half days a billion tweets are sent! It’s important that we as teachers understand Twitter as our students are using it...