The older I get (cough, cough) the more I realize I don’t know. There’s always another side to every story, there’s always a perspective that can be discussed or understood. Reasons for every action, thought, or attitude. I know teachers who swear up and down they’ll never be administrators, and administrators who wish teachers could […]
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Ignite talks are tag lined with “Enlighten us, but make it quick,”. Ignite is a presentation format where a presenter speaks while slides advance automatically to support them. An Ignite presentation is exactly 5 minutes, and contains exactly 20 slides. The slides advance automatically after each slide is displayed for 15 seconds. I think this
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Leaders are everywhere. They aren’t just the ones in charge. Take for example the office clerk in Georgia, who was able to prevent who knows how many injuries or even possibly deaths. Antoinette Tuff said she convinced an armed Michael Brandon Hill, 20, to surrender after a brief gun battle inside the Ronald E. McNair
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Yet another reason kinder classes could teach the rest of us a few things… I sat in on a morning routine this week and was so tickled to hear & see this. Wouldn’t we all have better days if we started each day singing this to ourselves? I think they have their priorities straight! Singingly,
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Our challenge this week was to discuss our philosophy of education…I’m going to cheat, 🙂 and offer up this quote and these two posts that I think directly reflect my opinions of what I think a school should look like. What can you do in 16 days? If… What do you think?
Philosophy of Education, Teamann-ized #SAVMP Read More »
I had never planned to be administrator. My Master’s degree isn’t in administration. It’s in Technology and Curriculum Integration, one of the very few options at the time. (In 2005, technology in the classroom wasn’t at all in demand the way it is today!) I think I’ve always Mentoring and being mentored is an
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This post is cross posted from Connected Principals. Today I had the opportunity to sit in on an MST vision planning meeting in preparation for the 2013-2014 year. I am changing campuses next year and my new campus is Watson MST. The MST stands for Math, Science, & Technology. There is a strand
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How many of your students get to meet a Paralympic or Olympian? they’re not just hanging around the mall these days, are they? Coincidentally enough on today’s jog (and by jog, I totally mean walk) I listened to my second Edu All-Stars podcast with Todd Nesloney, Stacey Huffine, and Chris Kesler and heard about this program called
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Maybe you have a long commute…or have background music while you cook dinner…or a husband who thinks you need to lose weight and so you think jogging is better with a soundtrack… whatever the reason, those moments become easy peasy ways to add some quality content and PD to your world with a podcast!
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I’m so impressed with those who have already been able to get their thoughts down in some form or another about this week’s ISTE conference. I still haven’t even gotten my voice back, 🙂 I blame @MrHooker and his rousing session at EdTech karaoke that required squeals. ISTE marked my third conference in three weeks.
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