January 9, 2017 2 Performance Assessment in Math: Teaching Others Testing: we all know assessment is important, but oh, the anxiety it causes! In the best of all possible [...]
January 3, 2017 7 Reflections on #OneWord2017 I love making New Year’s resolutions. That sense of a fresh start, of reinventing myself, always fills [...]
December 5, 2016 3 Venturing into the World of Hyperdocs Recently, in a Twitter chat, I was introduced to hyperdocs: cool, interactive Google documents or slides [...]
November 13, 2016 8 Teaching Students Life and Career Skills Last year, I had an aha! moment while on a Twitter chat (by the way, if you’re an educator, Twitter [...]
October 31, 2016 3 No Rewards: Why We Shouldn’t Reward Students The other day, during a #HackLearning chat on Twitter, we talked about praise and intrinsic motivation. [...]
October 14, 2016 13 My Top 5 Strategies for Student-to-Student Interaction I belong to an inspiring and motivating group of educators called #sunchatbloggers. The other day a member of [...]
September 19, 2016 8 Surviving Group Projects Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread [...]
September 14, 2016 14 Parent Edcamp I wish I could report that Parent Edcamp was a huge success. But it wasn’t. This is not an easy blog [...]
September 6, 2016 6 Classroom Gallery Walk for Professional Development Our elementary/secondary shared, individualized PD has begun! I have to admit, I was hesitant to start [...]
August 29, 2016 8 Strength in Vulnerability A new school year begins with a group of new teachers, ready to learn the ins and outs of how we [...]