August 22, 2016 12 Breakout EDU: Gamifying Professional Development At our school, we believe that a strong school philosophy is the basis for everything. So, every year in [...]
August 15, 2016 13 Individualized Professional Development At the Community for Learning, we didn’t use very much individualized professional [...]
August 8, 2016 7 Common Professional Development Challenges When Tami and I decided to open The Community for Learning, we made a long list of the ways we felt [...]
May 16, 2016 2 Using Protocols in Professional Development In one of my favorite Twitter chat groups, #BFC530, someone recently recommended the book Protocols for [...]
May 9, 2016 3 Hosting an Edcamp: EdcampRD Everything we do in life starts with a dream. Our tech coach, Eladio, had been dreaming of [...]
April 10, 2016 7 Edcamp for Professional Development Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to the ASCD conference in Atlanta. Five educators from [...]
March 6, 2016 2 How Teachers Can Check For Students’ Understanding One of the most important things we can do as educators is learn how to check for [...]
February 8, 2016 1 Using Centers to Improve Professional Development for Teachers In the education world, professional development for teachers often gets a bad rap… and for good [...]
January 24, 2016 4 Digital Teaching Tools — A Professional Development PLAYdate I take part in a daily twitter chat (#BFC530) in which a group of inspiring educators share ideas and support [...]
October 8, 2015 4 Teaching Vocabulary: Word of the Day Many of us were taught vocabulary by writing down a list of words and looking up their definitions in the [...]