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For the longest time your Grade/Department Chair, or your building Administration, or your school district has directed your Professional Learning. It is time to take back your professional learning as a professional learner. Because, despite how you sometimes feel, you are… Continue Reading →
There is wisdom in the analog classroom. In this age of what to bring with us from the analog to the digital classrooms, we are challenged. Training is not different. What effective practices do we copy as-is into digital platforms? What… Continue Reading →
Can you identify the support and resistance of educational technology in your educational community? Are you sometimes in support and other times in resistance of #edtech? That actually sounds right. Educational technology is an amplifier of content and task completion…. Continue Reading →
We are both teachers. Invariably one of us will have more experience. I promise not to lord that over you or be intimidated by yours. A Promise to My Kid’s Teacher #edchat Click To Tweet In the rush of our… Continue Reading →
What are your Educational Non-Negotiables? I use the term “non-negotiables” often on this blog: The good news is I am not your Union Representative I am a fellow educator. But I think it would do us both good to identify… Continue Reading →
I reread (2005, 2017) this book with advance knowledge of the cringe worthy, sideways glance at every teacher’s first years. I read it knowing that one of my favorite, but most embarrassing, quote at the end of the book hit… Continue Reading →
Some times of year are thick with educational nostalgia. Graduations and the start of a school year are traditional times to reflect on your years in educational service. Veteran teachers wax philosophic if they would still start a career in… Continue Reading →
Congratulations, you are ready to start blending your class! Now what about your students? Educators who pioneered blended learning can offer the next wave of potential blended learning teachers a hand-up. Teachers who elect to implement a blended approach to… Continue Reading →
Teachers have always created things for their students. Teachers spend so much time in the classroom and know their students so well, that is natural they create content for those classrooms. And then, when they eventually emerge from the classroom… Continue Reading →
Five ways to fail at Blended Learning: Avoid these 5 ways to fail at Blended Learning #edchat Click To Tweet Try to make everything available online all at once. Impossible and you would be too tired to teach students face-to-face…. Continue Reading →
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