Digital Portfolios: Teaching Students to Own Their Progress
Promote self-reflection and deepen the transfer of knowledge with this easy 4-step process.
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In this webinar, Starr Sackstein shares a 4-step process that simplifies and increases the impact of digital portfolios. A process that can be easily used in any classroom, any age level, and with any subject area.
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Starr Sackstein has been an educator since 2001 and is currently an educational consultant with the Core Collaborative. Her last position was as the director of humanities in the West Hempstead Union Free School District. Starr received national board certification in 2012 and was recognized as an outstanding educator that year by Education Update. She is also a Certified Masters Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA) and served as the New York State director for JEA. Most recently, she was named an ASCD “Emerging Leader” class of 2016 and had the opportunity to give a TEDx Talk called A Recovering Perfectionist’s Journey to Give Up Grades.
She is the author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective; Blogging for Educators; Teaching Students to Self-Assess: How Do I Help Students Grow as Learners?; The Power of Questioning: Opening Up the World of Student Inquiry; Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School; Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empower Students to Provide Effective Peer Feedback; and Going From Teacher to Leader Without Losing Your Mind. She blogged on Education Week Teacher at Work in Progress and has contributed to several other publications. Starr has travelled the world sharing ideas about assessment reform in Dubai and South Korea and is hoping to continue changing the system for kids everywhere.