Rhonda Hewer
@rhondahewer.bsky.social
MEd, Lecturer @WLU, Math Consultant @WRDSB, Learner, @LeadandDesign Fellow, Master of Creative Disobedience and Disruption, Adventure Seeker, Hiker, Kayaker
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Rhonda Hewer
@rhondahewer.bsky.social
· Jan 30
WRDSB Tiered Approach In Mathematics
YouTube video by Rhonda Hewer
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Exciting news! @wrdsb.bsky.social #mathfacilitators have revamped math long range plans for a tiered approach throughout the school year. Check out the updated plans here, full of useful resources: sites.google.com/wrdsb.ca/math-… and learn more about the tiered approach in this vide#EDUskyky
Just finished watching the Lilith Fair documentary on CBC Gem, what a beautiful tribute to women’s talent, artistry, and courage. 💜✨
It captured how music became a supportive space to break barriers, lift each other up, and change the industry. Truly inspiring. #LilithFair #WomenInMusic
It captured how music became a supportive space to break barriers, lift each other up, and change the industry. Truly inspiring. #LilithFair #WomenInMusic
September 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Just finished watching the Lilith Fair documentary on CBC Gem, what a beautiful tribute to women’s talent, artistry, and courage. 💜✨
It captured how music became a supportive space to break barriers, lift each other up, and change the industry. Truly inspiring. #LilithFair #WomenInMusic
It captured how music became a supportive space to break barriers, lift each other up, and change the industry. Truly inspiring. #LilithFair #WomenInMusic
Thank you to @wr-dsb.bsky.social #MathFacilitators for this gr8 idea. Ss in random groups of 4 got to know each other by creating a WODB about themselves.
1 thing unique to you
1 thing unique to two of you
1 thing unique to three of you
1 thing that all 4 of you have in common
#mtbos #edusky
1 thing unique to you
1 thing unique to two of you
1 thing unique to three of you
1 thing that all 4 of you have in common
#mtbos #edusky
September 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Thank you to @wr-dsb.bsky.social #MathFacilitators for this gr8 idea. Ss in random groups of 4 got to know each other by creating a WODB about themselves.
1 thing unique to you
1 thing unique to two of you
1 thing unique to three of you
1 thing that all 4 of you have in common
#mtbos #edusky
1 thing unique to you
1 thing unique to two of you
1 thing unique to three of you
1 thing that all 4 of you have in common
#mtbos #edusky
Started Day 1 in a sharing circle. As I suspected, Ss were shy to share. It became more of a community circle and allowed them to ask qs about a new school and being in Gr 7.
Tomorrow I am going to focus on talking about intelligent failure and psychological safety.
#edusky #eduskychat #mtbos
Tomorrow I am going to focus on talking about intelligent failure and psychological safety.
#edusky #eduskychat #mtbos
September 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Started Day 1 in a sharing circle. As I suspected, Ss were shy to share. It became more of a community circle and allowed them to ask qs about a new school and being in Gr 7.
Tomorrow I am going to focus on talking about intelligent failure and psychological safety.
#edusky #eduskychat #mtbos
Tomorrow I am going to focus on talking about intelligent failure and psychological safety.
#edusky #eduskychat #mtbos
Here we go! Day 1 of the school year. Leaning into the discomfort of starting the year with blank walls and no desks! New school = construction zone and limited supplies - kind of forces you to rethink how we can do this differently!
#edusky #mtbos #eduskychat
#edusky #mtbos #eduskychat
September 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Here we go! Day 1 of the school year. Leaning into the discomfort of starting the year with blank walls and no desks! New school = construction zone and limited supplies - kind of forces you to rethink how we can do this differently!
#edusky #mtbos #eduskychat
#edusky #mtbos #eduskychat
🧵1/4
This goes out to my fellow instructional coaches: I’m teaching Intermediate Language this year for the first time in my career.
Even with years of experience in coaching, I’ve been reminded how it feels to be new to a subject, a grade, or even to teaching.
#EduSky #EduCoach #EduSkyChat
This goes out to my fellow instructional coaches: I’m teaching Intermediate Language this year for the first time in my career.
Even with years of experience in coaching, I’ve been reminded how it feels to be new to a subject, a grade, or even to teaching.
#EduSky #EduCoach #EduSkyChat
September 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
🧵1/4
This goes out to my fellow instructional coaches: I’m teaching Intermediate Language this year for the first time in my career.
Even with years of experience in coaching, I’ve been reminded how it feels to be new to a subject, a grade, or even to teaching.
#EduSky #EduCoach #EduSkyChat
This goes out to my fellow instructional coaches: I’m teaching Intermediate Language this year for the first time in my career.
Even with years of experience in coaching, I’ve been reminded how it feels to be new to a subject, a grade, or even to teaching.
#EduSky #EduCoach #EduSkyChat
How did all this fit in a cubicle?! 11 years of collecting ideas, books, tools, and treasures. Grateful for all I’ve learned from brilliant educators. Headed back to the classroom to explore cross-curricular learning + assessment in the messy middle years.
#edusky
#eduskychat
#eduskyAU
#mtbos
#edusky
#eduskychat
#eduskyAU
#mtbos
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
How did all this fit in a cubicle?! 11 years of collecting ideas, books, tools, and treasures. Grateful for all I’ve learned from brilliant educators. Headed back to the classroom to explore cross-curricular learning + assessment in the messy middle years.
#edusky
#eduskychat
#eduskyAU
#mtbos
#edusky
#eduskychat
#eduskyAU
#mtbos
These two educators are so amazing.
They continue to inspire me by the opportunities they provide students to flourish while learning and practicing #transferableskills
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#EduSkyChatAU
They continue to inspire me by the opportunities they provide students to flourish while learning and practicing #transferableskills
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#EduSkyChatAU
G7 @GrohPS Collaborated with artist Sandra Dunn on a #designthinking journey exploring:
“How might we tell the stories of our community through public art?”
From empathy to ideation to Forging Legacies this final piece is a celebration of voices made visible.
sites.google.com/u/0/d/1362Lj...
“How might we tell the stories of our community through public art?”
From empathy to ideation to Forging Legacies this final piece is a celebration of voices made visible.
sites.google.com/u/0/d/1362Lj...
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
These two educators are so amazing.
They continue to inspire me by the opportunities they provide students to flourish while learning and practicing #transferableskills
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#EduSkyChatAU
They continue to inspire me by the opportunities they provide students to flourish while learning and practicing #transferableskills
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#EduSkyChatAU
It’s Friday.
5 days to go.
Every kid walking through our classroom door is carrying a story—unfinished, evolving, worthy.
Let’s meet them with eyes that see growth, not grades.
Let’s end the year the way we hope they begin the next:
Confident. Curious. Connected.
#EduSky
#EndStrong
5 days to go.
Every kid walking through our classroom door is carrying a story—unfinished, evolving, worthy.
Let’s meet them with eyes that see growth, not grades.
Let’s end the year the way we hope they begin the next:
Confident. Curious. Connected.
#EduSky
#EndStrong
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It’s Friday.
5 days to go.
Every kid walking through our classroom door is carrying a story—unfinished, evolving, worthy.
Let’s meet them with eyes that see growth, not grades.
Let’s end the year the way we hope they begin the next:
Confident. Curious. Connected.
#EduSky
#EndStrong
5 days to go.
Every kid walking through our classroom door is carrying a story—unfinished, evolving, worthy.
Let’s meet them with eyes that see growth, not grades.
Let’s end the year the way we hope they begin the next:
Confident. Curious. Connected.
#EduSky
#EndStrong
"He just needs to try harder."
Or maybe... he just needs the right access point.
#EduSky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#TieredSupport
#MathForAll
Or maybe... he just needs the right access point.
#EduSky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#TieredSupport
#MathForAll
June 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"He just needs to try harder."
Or maybe... he just needs the right access point.
#EduSky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#TieredSupport
#MathForAll
Or maybe... he just needs the right access point.
#EduSky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#TieredSupport
#MathForAll
One assessment. Many ways to show thinking.
Access ≠ lowering the bar.
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
Access ≠ lowering the bar.
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
June 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One assessment. Many ways to show thinking.
Access ≠ lowering the bar.
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
Access ≠ lowering the bar.
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
1/🧵
A colleague recently shared they were returning to the classroom and going #gradeless in math. It made me curious… and honestly, anxious. As both an educator and a parent of a Grade 10 boy, here’s why.
#EduSky #EduSkyChat #mtbos #Onted #EduSkyAu
A colleague recently shared they were returning to the classroom and going #gradeless in math. It made me curious… and honestly, anxious. As both an educator and a parent of a Grade 10 boy, here’s why.
#EduSky #EduSkyChat #mtbos #Onted #EduSkyAu
June 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
1/🧵
A colleague recently shared they were returning to the classroom and going #gradeless in math. It made me curious… and honestly, anxious. As both an educator and a parent of a Grade 10 boy, here’s why.
#EduSky #EduSkyChat #mtbos #Onted #EduSkyAu
A colleague recently shared they were returning to the classroom and going #gradeless in math. It made me curious… and honestly, anxious. As both an educator and a parent of a Grade 10 boy, here’s why.
#EduSky #EduSkyChat #mtbos #Onted #EduSkyAu
To ensure T clarity (effect size=0.85) Ss should be able to answer 3 questions:
❓What am I learning today (learning intention)
❓How will I know that I learned it (success criteria) (0.88)
❓Why am I learning this (relevance)
Ss then drive their learning
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
❓What am I learning today (learning intention)
❓How will I know that I learned it (success criteria) (0.88)
❓Why am I learning this (relevance)
Ss then drive their learning
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
June 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
To ensure T clarity (effect size=0.85) Ss should be able to answer 3 questions:
❓What am I learning today (learning intention)
❓How will I know that I learned it (success criteria) (0.88)
❓Why am I learning this (relevance)
Ss then drive their learning
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
❓What am I learning today (learning intention)
❓How will I know that I learned it (success criteria) (0.88)
❓Why am I learning this (relevance)
Ss then drive their learning
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
Already so many aha moments and I have barely began digging into this book.
Specifically appreciate the continuum of engagement and recognizing that for too long education has defined engaged Ss by the participating column and missed that disrupting and avoiding are active strategies for Ss
#EduSky
Specifically appreciate the continuum of engagement and recognizing that for too long education has defined engaged Ss by the participating column and missed that disrupting and avoiding are active strategies for Ss
#EduSky
June 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Already so many aha moments and I have barely began digging into this book.
Specifically appreciate the continuum of engagement and recognizing that for too long education has defined engaged Ss by the participating column and missed that disrupting and avoiding are active strategies for Ss
#EduSky
Specifically appreciate the continuum of engagement and recognizing that for too long education has defined engaged Ss by the participating column and missed that disrupting and avoiding are active strategies for Ss
#EduSky
What if we saw assessment as an invitation to think more deeply not perform better?
#EduSky
#mtbos
#EduSkyChat
#iteachmath
#EquitableAssessment
#EduSky
#mtbos
#EduSkyChat
#iteachmath
#EquitableAssessment
June 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
What if we saw assessment as an invitation to think more deeply not perform better?
#EduSky
#mtbos
#EduSkyChat
#iteachmath
#EquitableAssessment
#EduSky
#mtbos
#EduSkyChat
#iteachmath
#EquitableAssessment
A4
Playful mindsets ignite creativity! In freedom, "what if" questions spark innovation. Applying a "yes, and" attitude in groups fosters true collaboration, building on ideas rather than shutting them down. It's a powerful shift! #EduSkyAU
Playful mindsets ignite creativity! In freedom, "what if" questions spark innovation. Applying a "yes, and" attitude in groups fosters true collaboration, building on ideas rather than shutting them down. It's a powerful shift! #EduSkyAU
OK let's explore some of the possibilities of play...
Question 4: How might playful mindsets unlock innovation and collaboration in education?
#EduSkyAU
@eduskyteam.bsky.social
Question 4: How might playful mindsets unlock innovation and collaboration in education?
#EduSkyAU
@eduskyteam.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If your data shows the same patterns every year, it’s not a student issue.
It’s a system issue.
#EduSky
#EquityInAssessment
#EduSkyChat
#mtbos
#iteachmath
It’s a system issue.
#EduSky
#EquityInAssessment
#EduSkyChat
#mtbos
#iteachmath
June 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If your data shows the same patterns every year, it’s not a student issue.
It’s a system issue.
#EduSky
#EquityInAssessment
#EduSkyChat
#mtbos
#iteachmath
It’s a system issue.
#EduSky
#EquityInAssessment
#EduSkyChat
#mtbos
#iteachmath
Assessment is a mirror, not a ranking system.
What are your assessments reflecting back to students about who they are as learners?
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#EduSkyChat
What are your assessments reflecting back to students about who they are as learners?
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#EduSkyChat
June 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Assessment is a mirror, not a ranking system.
What are your assessments reflecting back to students about who they are as learners?
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#EduSkyChat
What are your assessments reflecting back to students about who they are as learners?
#EduSky
#EquitableAssessment
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#EduSkyChat
Facilitated a gr8 session with admin about assessment practices and how they shape the culture of a school.
Blue = assessment of
Yellow=assessment for
Pink=assessment as
Y-axis=Student identity
X-axis=school culture
What do you notice?
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#educoach
#edchat
#mtbos
Blue = assessment of
Yellow=assessment for
Pink=assessment as
Y-axis=Student identity
X-axis=school culture
What do you notice?
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#educoach
#edchat
#mtbos
June 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Facilitated a gr8 session with admin about assessment practices and how they shape the culture of a school.
Blue = assessment of
Yellow=assessment for
Pink=assessment as
Y-axis=Student identity
X-axis=school culture
What do you notice?
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#educoach
#edchat
#mtbos
Blue = assessment of
Yellow=assessment for
Pink=assessment as
Y-axis=Student identity
X-axis=school culture
What do you notice?
#EduSky
#EduSkyChat
#educoach
#edchat
#mtbos
Reposted by Rhonda Hewer
We build walls of thinking not anchor charts of answers.
These are real student sticky notes from a recent inquiry.
What happens when we make student thinking visible?
They feel seen.
They start thinking more.
They become the drivers of the learning.
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #VisibleThinking
#edusky
These are real student sticky notes from a recent inquiry.
What happens when we make student thinking visible?
They feel seen.
They start thinking more.
They become the drivers of the learning.
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #VisibleThinking
#edusky
May 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We build walls of thinking not anchor charts of answers.
These are real student sticky notes from a recent inquiry.
What happens when we make student thinking visible?
They feel seen.
They start thinking more.
They become the drivers of the learning.
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #VisibleThinking
#edusky
These are real student sticky notes from a recent inquiry.
What happens when we make student thinking visible?
They feel seen.
They start thinking more.
They become the drivers of the learning.
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #VisibleThinking
#edusky
It’s not the tool, it’s how students use it to think.
In Coach’s Corner (Tier 2), these tools become thinking tools. Not just answer machines.
#edusky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#eduskychat
#tieredapproach
In Coach’s Corner (Tier 2), these tools become thinking tools. Not just answer machines.
#edusky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#eduskychat
#tieredapproach
May 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It’s not the tool, it’s how students use it to think.
In Coach’s Corner (Tier 2), these tools become thinking tools. Not just answer machines.
#edusky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#eduskychat
#tieredapproach
In Coach’s Corner (Tier 2), these tools become thinking tools. Not just answer machines.
#edusky
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#eduskychat
#tieredapproach
In a recent session with school leaders, we explored how assessment shapes not
just grades but student identity.
1 quiz, 13 educators, 7 different marks.
When we assess through points we risk missing what students
actually understand.
#Edusky
#Mtbos
#iteachmath
just grades but student identity.
1 quiz, 13 educators, 7 different marks.
When we assess through points we risk missing what students
actually understand.
#Edusky
#Mtbos
#iteachmath
May 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In a recent session with school leaders, we explored how assessment shapes not
just grades but student identity.
1 quiz, 13 educators, 7 different marks.
When we assess through points we risk missing what students
actually understand.
#Edusky
#Mtbos
#iteachmath
just grades but student identity.
1 quiz, 13 educators, 7 different marks.
When we assess through points we risk missing what students
actually understand.
#Edusky
#Mtbos
#iteachmath
This is why I am so excited to return to the classroom.
To experiment with developing #transferableskills including entrepreneurial skills in Ss by providing uninterrupted blocks of time to research, experiment, ideate, refine ideas, prototype and fail fast and fail forward
#edusky
#eduskychat
To experiment with developing #transferableskills including entrepreneurial skills in Ss by providing uninterrupted blocks of time to research, experiment, ideate, refine ideas, prototype and fail fast and fail forward
#edusky
#eduskychat
We started thinking that if these lists needed to become our profile of a graduate from our system, then some serious #creativedisruptionedu to the way we have always played school needed to happen
#edusky
#inquirylearning
#designthinking
Thanks Future Design School for The Future of Edu Report
#edusky
#inquirylearning
#designthinking
Thanks Future Design School for The Future of Edu Report
May 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is why I am so excited to return to the classroom.
To experiment with developing #transferableskills including entrepreneurial skills in Ss by providing uninterrupted blocks of time to research, experiment, ideate, refine ideas, prototype and fail fast and fail forward
#edusky
#eduskychat
To experiment with developing #transferableskills including entrepreneurial skills in Ss by providing uninterrupted blocks of time to research, experiment, ideate, refine ideas, prototype and fail fast and fail forward
#edusky
#eduskychat
May 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This! 👇
“I used to think I wasn’t good at math. Now I think I just wasn’t shown the right way to learn it.”
~ student of the trades
This is why we disrupt.
#edusky
#eduskychat
#mtbos
#iteachmath
~ student of the trades
This is why we disrupt.
#edusky
#eduskychat
#mtbos
#iteachmath
May 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This! 👇
Reposted by Rhonda Hewer
We don’t want compliant students.
We want curious ones.
In a creatively disrupted classroom:
We focus on questions, not just answers.
We praise risk-taking, not perfection.
We talk more about thinking than grades.
How are you creating a culture of curiosity?
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #Edusky
We want curious ones.
In a creatively disrupted classroom:
We focus on questions, not just answers.
We praise risk-taking, not perfection.
We talk more about thinking than grades.
How are you creating a culture of curiosity?
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #Edusky
May 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
We don’t want compliant students.
We want curious ones.
In a creatively disrupted classroom:
We focus on questions, not just answers.
We praise risk-taking, not perfection.
We talk more about thinking than grades.
How are you creating a culture of curiosity?
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #Edusky
We want curious ones.
In a creatively disrupted classroom:
We focus on questions, not just answers.
We praise risk-taking, not perfection.
We talk more about thinking than grades.
How are you creating a culture of curiosity?
#CreativeDisruptorsEdu #Edusky