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 [...]
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 [...]