Award Winning Teacher – International Speaker – Author
A few have emailed me or messaged me and asked how I introduced Twitter to my fellow teachers in my building. It all started with the following email earlier this past week. There was a lot more interest that I had anticipated which was great. I got clearance from my principal to have a session […]
Continue ReadingActions do speak louder than words, and yet we still all like to hear ourselves talk. There are hundreds of blogs, magazines, and journals out there that put forth the latest and greatest theories and pedagogies of education. While those are all fine and good, I would rather just do something. This might seem a […]
Continue ReadingI am a big fan of Field of Dreams and the line, “if you build it, they will come.” This line has been used as a metaphor for more things than I could possibly list and has been rephrased just as many times. Yet, here I am using it once again, “If you listen, they […]
Continue ReadingMy parents always taught me to be proud of who I am and stand up for what I believe in. I like to think I have lived with this principle in mind for the better part of my life. However, something has changed and I can deny it no longer. I have hidden it from […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday I spent roughly 17 hours listening, speaking, sharing, collaborating, and learning at the Reform Symposium. For those of you that were not there, you missed something truly special. This was my first such experience with an online and FREE conference and it was nothing short of amazing. During the morning I fired off […]
Continue ReadingAs I get ready to return to work on Monday from my holiday break I want to reflect on what I have learned over the past two weeks. Besides learning that potty training is still difficult and that I am not as good at playing video games as I once was, I did gain a […]
Continue ReadingAfter last night’s #ecosys conversation my head was spinning with thoughts and ideas and even more questions. The basis of our great conversation was around the role of parents in education. With that in mind I went back and looked over the tweets and wanted to expand some of my thoughts into a post on […]
Continue ReadingBelow are a few of my personal favorite videos that relate to my work as a teacher. Please feel free to share and comment if you have one that I am missing! This video is an advertisement for the new Windows cell phone. I like this video for one key reason. We need to unplug […]
Continue ReadingTonight’s #edchat topic is the role of participatory learning in schools. If you are like me, that term is foreign to you. In my world we use the term self-directed learning. While I think those terms are interchangeable I wanted to dig up some resources for those that this might be a new concept for. […]
Continue ReadingTeachers have to give homework and have to grade everything their students do. This is a belief that many teachers still hold and certainly the belief that nearly all students and parents have. I remember as a student asking my own teachers, “Will this be on the test?” If the answer to that was, “yes” […]
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