I was invited by Eric Guise co-host (with Nick Johnson) of the GotTechED Podcast to be a guest on episode 28 released on March 11th, 2019. Give it a listen: Checkout the show-notes by visiting the page for this episode on the GotTechED…
If you are familiar with Skype, Facetime, and/or Google Hangouts then you also need to become familiar with MIT Media Lab’s Unhangout. You can read more about it on their site. This is one of those gems you hear about…
If you have been following along with this blog, you know my role in my school district as a Teacher Resource Specialist for Technology sees me delivering PD in various ways (department(s), school(s), district, etc.). February 15, 2019… This year’s…
Let me tell you about Kelly’s class one day One of my 6th Grade Science Teachers, Kelly Lee, was facilitating a lesson on physical and chemical changes. The question arose — is boiling an egg a physical or chemical change —…
My instructional practice question for you is this, why spend class time teaching the features of a product rather than your content or providing time for researching? The scenario One of my teachers would like to have her students create…
As Alice Keeler says, “Google Sheets is always the answer!” So when one of my teachers came to me looking for an answer, I went with a Sheet. The scenario The teacher would like to have her students self reflect on…
When coaches catch-up… One of my former math teachers, Linda, is now a math coach for our middle schools. Her time is split between my building and our other middle school. I like to check in with her for three…
I share a space with my building’s Gifted and Talented Teacher Resource Specialist, Rebecca McLelland-Crawley. This enables us to have some great coaching conversations as well as moments where we can integrate technology into the PRISM (Performance Revealing Individual Student…
Scheduling 1600+ students? No problem! Allowing students to choose their schedule? We got this! Making sure grade levels don’t go rogue and sign up in another level? Don’t see an issue with that! Limiting sections within the schedule to ~30…
Each month I offer PD periods where I try and share an overarching topic with pathways that the attendees can select from and explore. I’ve posted about others in the past, most recently, Making Content Interactive; this month’s topic was…
