Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury is a fan favorite, partly because he’s a former-player-turned-coach, but also partly because he bears a striking resemblance to Ryan Gosling. He also holds the distinction of being the first coach in Big 12 history to start his career at 7-0. With an impressive track record of grooming athletes in his […]
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One of the opportunities I’ve been able to take on this year with George Couros is the #SAVMP collaboration project. Each week we post weekly updates to work with administrators and their team of mentees to help develop leadership and embrace the challenges that comes with the responsibility of leading. This week we discussed teacher
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***disclaimer: This is a continuation from a conversation happening on Voxer. Not a post directed at my current staff! 🙂 Her name was Emily. I remember her sweet round face, her blonde hair, and her sparkling personality. I also remember that she started every single composition with, “Hi, my name is Emily and I’m going
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If you haven’t seen the movie “Frozen” yet, I highly recommend it. While I did see it with my girls originally, I absolutely saw it again with a grown up friend…it’s that good! One of the main characters is Elsa, who is voiced by Idina Menzel. She has an icy curse and at a climatic
Leadership lessons from “Let it go”: not just a Disney song! Read More »
We all have bad days. We all have days where things didn’t go right…or as planned. Days that derail even th most positive of attitudes. The real question is what you do when you have them. As a teacher, your mood affects the class. As an administrator, your mood affects the building. (When the principal
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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
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The site “Reddit” both fascinates and terrifies me. It’s not somewhere I find resources because of my un-awareness of it, but I did discover something pretty cool! One of our teachers received a free box of goodies for his SPED classroom this year, from an anonymous donor, from the Reddit site. Here’s the explanation blurb off
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I know that sounds a lil’extreme, but seriously, it did. Dropbox is a storing/sharing place in the cloud that allows you to keep up with all of your files,where ever you are, even across platforms. I love this blurb I came across: “This program acts as a “magic pocket” which is always with you
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Do you know the average wait time a teacher pauses for after asking a question in the classroom? On average, it is one second. Just one. The ideal wait time is 8 seconds. That amount of time allows a student to think about their answer (aka metacognition). Not only is that going to allow your
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I was listening to a webinar last week discussing the benefit of effective teachers in the classroom and was blown away by what was being shared. The average effect of one teacher on a single student is modest. All else the same, a student with one excellent teacher for one year between fourth and eighth
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