Fishtank Learning Blog

Our Fishtank Teacher Spotlight with Jasmine Lane, who teaches 10th and 12th grade English in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Math problems aren’t written, they’re rewritten.

A real example of how a word problem can evolve from a fun, but rough beginning into a rich, polished problem.

At one end of the curriculum spectrum, there are fully-scripted, off-the-shelf options and at the other is, well, nothing—a blank page leaving you unlimited possibilities for what to plan. Could the best answer lie somewhere in the middle?

Our first Fishtank Teacher Spotlight is with Allyson Smith, 10th grade English teacher and English Department Head at Argosy Collegiate Charter School.

This week, the Thomas Fordham Institute published a report on the quality of materials from three popular curriculum-sharing websites and came to conclusions that the majority are of poor quality.

We think this makes the case for high-quality OER even stronger.