I am honored to be nominated for a Sunshine Award. Blogger, principal, runner, ad cab caller extraordinaire Ben Gilpin…@benjamingilpin nominated my blog for the Sunshine award. I was lucky enough to meet Ben (albeit ever so briefly) at ISTE this year. I am motivated by his weekly memo to his staff that he shares on his […]
Sunshine Award…who, moi? Read More »
Have you ever felt like things were moving too fast? Like things weren’t getting your full attention? Like you were overwhelmed and didn’t know where to start? Three “strategies” I’ve employed this year to help me “manage” the workload have made a difference in keeping up with my whirlwind of a world. The first mental
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Gamification is all the rage within edu circles. It has tremendous potential in the education space. How can we use it to deliver truly meaningful experiences to students? The inforgraphic at the bottom can provide background, some how’s and some why’s educators might want to think about gameifying. At it’s core, gamification is simply adding the
Campus level…gamification! Read More »
Who knew way back in college when I became besties with a gentleman that I worked with that I’d eventually be SUPER indebted and impressed with his wife?? Well, he probably knew that, 🙂 I mentioned on Facebook last spring how completely confused with creating my own website & blogging platform. I needed it
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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,
What if every day started with this? Read More »
There are certain situations in life that are an automatic reaction. Red light, stop. Phone rings, answer it. Troy Aikman on TV, stop and watch. As an educator, I wish there was a way to turn off our “automatic” mode. One of the bigger moments in my back to school world as a teacher came
be the unexpected! Read More »
This past spring I contemplated several changes to my career path. Some very similar to what I am doing now…some were very different. I mentally went back and forth with people I trust and people who know my heart. I have loved being an assistant principal at Luna. I couldn’t imagine learning how to do
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Read More »
I like goals. I like lists. I especially like crossing things OFF of a list of goals. Thus far in 2013, I have marked off several that were important to me…both professionally and personally. With the upcoming start of the school year (I go back next Tuesday.) I wanted to get a second set of
Making a list…checking it twice… Read More »
This is cross posted from Connected Principals. It’s always interesting to me how worlds can collide. We had a guest speaker at church tonight, Dr. Tim Kimmel. His sermon was on grace based parenting, particularly, how to get through the sensitive tween years. While I don’t quite have a tween, (gulp.) I was still struck by a
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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!
An easy way to grow & learn… Read More »