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"Look what happens when assessment becomes a simple student-driven process Traditional outcome-based grades make school a place of right or wrong answers, a rigid system that stalls enjoyment and learning. In contrast, innovative teachers of all subjects and grade levels use process-based assessment to build positive classroom cultures and foster resilient learners who focus on the learning, not the grades. Award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jorgensen shows how to create process-based assessments that help students develop habits of higher-order thinking. It is about embracing, trying, failing, and trying again, and turning ""What did you get on the test?"" into ""How did you get that on the test?"" In Hacking Student Learning Habits, you'll learn how to: build upward trends in non-linear learning systems introduce small, measurable, progress-driven goals deemphasize grades as the outcome implement process based learning help students embrace process driven goals create fun in the learning inspire students to develop high yield habits for life Want a new classroom culture? Read Hacking Student Learning Habits today, and enjoy an impactful change."

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Elizabeth Jorgensen is a writer and teacher. She received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and her master's from Carroll University (Waukesha, Wisconsin). She has been published in English Journal, Edutopia, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture (Harvard University), Brevity, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Writers Who Care, Ohio Journal of English Language Arts, Wisconsin English Journal, Skinny Poetry Journal, and Gyroscope Review, among others.She has presented for the National Council of Teachers of English, Wisconsin State Reading Association, Wisconsin Writers Association, East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University, The Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, and The Illinois Reading Council, among others.She is passionate about sijo, a Korean form of poetry. Elizabeth's sijo lessons have been uploaded on the Sejong Cultural Society as an exemplar of teaching poetry and she was a runner up in the 2020 Wisconsin Sijo Contest.Her memoir was released in 2019. Narrated in alternating voices, Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold (Meyer & Meyer Sport), is an inspiring story about Olympian Gwen Jorgensen and her family.Hundreds of Elizabeth's students have been published or won writing awards from the Pulitzer Center, Sejong Cultural Society (Korea Institute, Harvard University), Teen Ink, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Skinny Poetry Journal, Kimberly Public Library, Rachel Carson Landmark Alliance, National Council of Teachers of English, Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Milwaukee Public Museum, Teaching Today Wisconsin, and others.For the 2014-2015 school year, Jorgensen was named the Arrowhead Union High School (Hartland, Wisconsin) Teacher of the Year. In 2017, Jorgensen was named the Graduate of the Last Decade from Carroll University. She was the 2008-2009 Lucille S. Pooley Award winner (for Successful Techniques in Teaching Composition in the Schools of Wisconsin). In 2011, she was named the Jarvis E. Bush winner from the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English. That year, Jorgensen was also named a PBS Innovative Educator. In 2021, she was named one of 20 of America's Most Inspiring Educators (The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation Teacher Innovator Awards).

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