You spend hours writing thoughtful feedback on student work. You know what effective feedback looks like—timely, specific, actionable. You’re good at this. Then Monday arrives. Students glance at your comments for 30 seconds before shoving…

“Am I finished?” “Is this good enough?” “What else do I need to do?” These questions drive teachers crazy because they reveal a fundamental problem: students have been trained to have feedback done to them,…

You’ve been teaching paragraph structure and quote integration. Both are in your success criteria. You mark an essay focusing on paragraph structure—it needs work and you have expertise to share. But the student was fixated…