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Part of the #ETCoaches Blog Challenge. See my other weekly posts: What is my Purpose? Challenges and Successes Current Tools, Problems, and Successes Influential Blogs What is Next in Blogging? Everyone has challenges and success at work, but working in… Continue Reading →
For years, I’ve proudly explained my content specialities in grades 4-8 as having a strong focus on “content literacy.” Imagine my surprise during the first video in MOOC, when they explained that content literacy is an intermediary step with Disciplinary Literacy being the… Continue Reading →
Part of the #ETCoaches Blog Challenge. See my other weekly posts: What is my Purpose? Challenges and Successes Current Tools, Problems, and Successes Influential Blogs What is Next in Blogging? As I identify the purpose of my blog, I… Continue Reading →
An awesome #ETCoaches Twitter chat last week inspired the group to start-up an Ed Tech Coaches Blog Challenge. I offered to get the ball rolling on some challenge items – I sure hope everyone into the idea chips in and makes… Continue Reading →
I wrote about my cloud strategy and even anticipated my husband might need/have a cloud strategy, but I was not prepared to teach my 3rd grader his own kid cloud strategy. Yeah homework. I could sense trouble the minute I spied papers with usernames… Continue Reading →
As if teachers do not live in the “Real World,” but please go on about how I am not preparing my students for your “Real World.” While you do so, I am over here: Allowing a kid to sleep… Continue Reading →
There is a certain understood professionalism between educators – or there should be. Judging the quality of a teacher-created contribution is tough, but how does one judge another teacher’s contribution to quality instruction? Before you answer that let’s examine the Educational landscape… Continue Reading →
I remember back to teaching through an Internet outage and not realizing it until planning period. And I was grateful for the outage – no pesky emails in my Inbox to answer! But today’s Internet outage in the classroom can… Continue Reading →
As a classroom teacher you just know some things. You know some parents cannot make Open House, Curriculum Night, Parent/Teacher Conferences, and/or Parent Teacher Association meetings. You know that your more fragile learners have parents who might be considered “Missing In… Continue Reading →
When The Great Recession happened, educators experienced a contraction of available teaching positions. Educators were grateful for the work which remained and accomplished the same as if those let go were still present. The same amount of students showed up to be… Continue Reading →
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