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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]