There’s a bitter irony I continue to see happening in education today: the very efforts designed to improve schools often guarantee their own failure. New initiatives are launched with great fanfare, invest significant resources in training and implementation, and then watch as they fade away within a few years, replaced by the next wave of…
I’ve been working on the idea of a podcast for some time now and finally taken the time to do some planning and organizing to move from ‘idea’ to ‘action’. This isn’t the first time I’ve attempted to do a podcast. In the past, I’d get an episode or three completed but then the hectic…
Hybrid Learning – Introduction On Tuesday, February 15, I took part in the #TeamsEduChat monthly tweet meet exploring Hybrid Learning. One of my friends suggested my name as a host for this month’s chat because of my interested in technology and learning. During the chat, I offered up a few different tools and strategies I…
Often there is a false assumption that 1) play is not important for learning, and 2) play is for younger children. So, including high school students in learning-thru-play enriches teaching-learning process to a new level
Our topic this week is Supporting. Tribe, a post by Jana Scott Lindsay, has me pondering how do we support ourselves and, just as importantly, be part of a support system for others.
Student Engagement – As we live in the midst, it is struggling with such questions that help us to make sense of the noise.
How do we approach doing something new? Do we often see doors being closed? What is our attitude?
Is the focus on deficits or on strengths? Identify and help others to grow their strengths.
Change and innovation requires a leap. How are you leaping and encouraging others to leap?
Our topic for the November 12th, 2015 chat was Moving from Teacher Competition to Collaboration. The participants were eager to explore this topic and had great insights into the reasons why competition sometimes masquerades as collaboration and how, at times, cooperation can be substituted for collaboration. Both Competition and Cooperation allow school staffs to get…