Hack Learning

Whether you want to make subtle changes to your instructional design or turn it on its head-Hacking Instructional Design provides a toolbox of options. Discover just-in-time tools to design, upgrade, or adapt your instructional practices. Curriculum design experts Michael and Elizabeth Fisher show you how to: • Prioritize and break apart standards • Set targets and demonstrations of learning • Create valuable experiences for contemporary learners • Organize instructional elements into action plans • Maintain a thriving curriculum culture ecosystem These strategies offer you the power and permission to be the designer, not the recipient, of a contemporary curriculum. Students and teachers will benefit for years to come when you apply these engaging tools starting tomorrow.

A fresh perspective on the art of questioning Questions are the driving force of learning in classrooms. Hacking Questions digs into framing, delivering, and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep students engaged in learning. Known in education circles as the "Questioning Guru," Connie Hamilton shows teachers of all subjects and grades how to: • Hear the music: listen for correct answers • Scaffold to trigger student thinking without doing it for them • Kick the IDK bucket to avoid "I don't know" as the final answer • Punctuate your learning time to end with reflection questions • Spin the throttle to fuel students to ask the questions • Fill your back pocket with engagement questions • Make yourself invisible by establishing student-centered protocols • Be a Pinball Wizard and turn students into facilitators

Now is the time to reimagine assessment and throw out traditional grades Internationally-recognized grading and assessment expert Starr Sackstein is back with the long-awaited update to her highly-regarded guide to throwing out grades, even in a traditional grades school. Over 100 new strategies and resources Nearly seven years after helping launch a global no-grades classroom movement, Sackstein has honed her practice and now brings teachers and school leaders more than 100 new and updated strategies, solutions, and practical resources you can read today and use in any classroom tomorrow to transform how you assess learning. Understand modern assessment problems and how to fix them Readers will learn about the flaws of traditional assessment systems and how to make immediate changes so students can better advocate for themselves as learners. Change the mindset Begin by addressing your mindset about grading, and learn how to help your community buy into the shift and to go gradeless. Bravely change the systems that aren't serving your students. In this power-packed second edition of Hacking Assessment, you will find: • updated tools to ease the transition to ungrading for teachers • standards-aligned rubrics • new resources to support the work • self-grading strategies and tools • standards based grading tips and resources • fresh Hacks in Action for various grade levels • strategies for motivating students to embrace no-grades assessment • a blueprint for providing clear, objective feedback for learners • ways to inspire students to embrace self-grading • clear strategies for deciding on report card grades, even when you work daily without grades • examples of impactful assessment conferences with students Read this impactful, updated second edition of Hacking Assessment today, and immediately start building a culture of students who embrace learning for learning's sake, not for a grade.