One of the more fabulous reasons that personal learning connections are so worthwhile are those random moments when they can impact what you do, daily. I’ve responded to a couple of different hashtag requests that the reason I love twitter so much is that it allows me to connect with people who make me better […]
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Here are all the links from todays presentation! Today’s prezi!
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I shared this on Twitter this week, an article that details different ways to teach perseverance in math. I then received this as a follow up. Never one to back away from a challenge I’ve talked to several different high school math teachers and complied THESE strategies for David. Set a questions goal. When you are struggling with students
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A word to the wise… Parents are biased. Parents are sending you the absolute BEST that they have to offer at home. The child in your class that may test your patience like no other is the 20×30 poster hanging over their mantle. They are LOVED. ADORED. WANTED. Yesterday when I picked up my TsT,
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I came across this article today from a “friend” on Facebook who was venting about the hows’ and whys’ his children wouldn’t attend a public school what with all this bullying going on… I challenge you to read this article and see if you can view it through two separate lenses. First, look through the lens of
(caveat: I don’t like guns. my title does not endorse guns. or bullets. :)) (another caveat: this is also not about a blender.) One of the first conversations that my principal engaged me in was about the use of “workbooks”. While it wasn’t a practice that his mindset and philosophy embraced, he recognized that
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One of my FAVORITE tweeps is @ktenkely. She sends out an “iLearn” email every single day with all kinds of fabulous. Here is today’s with all of space sassiness. Did your students get to see the shuttle launch this morning? What a great way to start a Monday! Seeing a launch never gets old for
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Am posting this here in hopes my PLN can convince me one way or the other…and am cross posting on our Connected Principals site as well. Techie Teamann, technically yours, yadda yadda yadda…techie toys make me happy. I love my macbook…I love my iphone…my ipods…my itouches…sigh. Now we have this iPad…toy. A toy I don’t
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It’s no secret that bullying is a bad bad thing. One of our rockstar teachers put together some awesome resources and I thought I’d share the wealth here. I did several sessions a few years ago on CyberSafety for different campuses and they involved different videos that I’m going to post here as well. Keep
While we are waiting on a collective decision on how we’re going to be utilizing Edugence for intervention tracking and SST support purposes, let’s not forget how very useful the data that is already there can be. You have student test scores from previous years. You have curriculum assessment data from this year, in all