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Michael Bayewitz

Michael Bayewitz is director of school support and improvement for 32 schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. He has also served as a principal, assistant principal, and classroom teacher.
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Dealing With Conflict on Collaborative Teams

Michael Bayewitz

October 28, 2015

Categories: PLC

Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. Simon and Garfunkel. The 1977 New York Yankees. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

What do these famous teams have in common?

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Practicing Peer Feedback: More Observations, Less Evaluation

William M. Ferriter

September 7, 2017

Over the last several years, I’ve done a ton of experimenting in my sixth-grade classroom with peer feedback—structured opportunities for students to give and receive feedback from one another.

That’s primarily a function of efficiency. Teaching close to 120 students with a wide range of skills and abilities every single year makes it darn near impossible for me alone to provide feedback to the learners in my classroom. If the best feedback is both timely and directive—an argument that Bob Marzano made nearly a decade ago—we need to teach students to look for guidance and support from one another, rather than simply waiting to receive feedback from classroom teachers, who are perpetually buried in stacks of papers that need to be graded. Read more