Skype IS my Classroom
I spend a good amount of time each week in my online Professional Learning Community. Lately I have been seeing ads for an educational Skype-a-Thon that is happening on the […]
Living in Fear (Adapted post from 2013)
In the 1st grade I feared Vietnam. It’s coming for me, I thought. Every week more and more Vietnamese children showed up at my school. These kids would hide under […]
Thank you Steven Spielberg!
In University I read Schindler’s List as a part of a Modern World History course. I loved the book. If fact I was so in love with the book that […]
Revolutionary Recipes
Last week it was time to pull together what my students had learned so far in the unit on the Russian Revolution. We were working on the events leading up […]
Sand in my Shoes
Maybe it is my father’s fault. He introduced me to the Pacific Ocean, to fishing and clamming on the Washington Coast, to drifting for long hours down the Hoh River. […]
Retreat, Renewal, and The Razor’s Edge
“It is easy to be a holy man on a mountain.” This phrase from one of my all time favorite stories, The Razor’s Edge, has been a recurring motif in […]
Fanfares and Farewells
It is amazing the mark that teachers can leave on their students’ lives. It is amazing the mark a colleague can leave on a school community. Yesterday my school said […]
Red Light….GREEN LIGHT!
Recently I attended a training on Formative Assessment with Dylan Wiliam. He is well-known in educational circles as THE guru of Formative Assessment. So I was pretty excited to spend […]
Fighting the Sun for my Students’ Attention
Few events get your students as excited as natural phenomena. A crazy hail storm in the spring, the first snow of the season, or a high magnitude earthquake could all […]
Wikipedia-Wicked or Wonderful?
Professional Development can be the most maddening hours you spend as a teacher or it can lift you to new heights, make your head explode, and completely change the way […]
