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Save Our Schools

Last weekend I had the privilege of attending EdCamp: Grand Rapids hosted by the extraordinary Ron Houtman. About 100 educators from all over Michi... Read more

Grades Revisited

I spent some time this afternoon updating my grade book. Like most of us, grading is my least favorite part of teaching and I have a nasty habit of... Read more

The Greatest Struggle

I went to Kentucky this weekend to visit my parents. It was a great weekend and I’m glad I was able to spend some time away from thinking about tea... Read more

Thoughts on Innovation

I wasn’t planning on writing this afternoon, but I saw a post on Twitter from Steven Anderson, and it really got me thinking. What is innovation? I... Read more

Video is Not the Answer

The flipped class has been coming up more and more in discussions and blog posts recently. My guess is that it has something to do with Salman Khan... Read more

First Quarter Reflections

First quarter drew to a close this past Friday. I, along with the rest of the school, have been frantically working to find missing assignments, co... Read more

Grades

D Sharon Pruitt, Flickr CC As I was walking back to my classroom this afternoon, I passed a couple of learners in the hall talking about their grad... Read more

Learning About Motivation

As some of my followers noticed near the end of last week, I had a moment of weakness after my toughest class. I’ve been very frustrated with havin... Read more

MishMash

I’ve been struggling to find time to write recently. This has been a good and a bad thing. For one, I’m busy with learners during the day and I’m s... Read more

Who Says You Can’t Teach Writing in Science?

I borrowed an idea from John Spencer about using a photo writing prompt to get some creative juices flowing in learners. There is a Tumblr page tha... Read more

Adapting for Learning – Planning and Implementation

Here is what I’m look at for the middle steps of The Ladder I’m trying to build up for my learners. You can read Part 1 here. Obviously, before we ... Read more

Adapting for Learning – The Ladder

It’s been a week since I’ve written. That is both good and bad…I got a lot more work done this week, but now I have about 1000 ideas flying through... Read more

Educator, Learner

This morning I’ve been reflecting on the last year of teaching and what growth I’ve had and what growth I still need to accomplish. My first attemp... Read more

Progress is an Option

Before I begin, I want you to know that this post began as one thought, turned into a second, and by the end, had gone through a third, fourth, and... Read more

Who Should We Teach?

I missed the first half of the Republican debate last night due to a soccer game. I caught the second half, and was a little frustrated that Brian ... Read more

Teaching is Like Bowling

This past weekend my wife and I travelled up to South Bend, IN to spend the weekend with her family. Her youngest brother turned 16, and with both ... Read more

When Should We Introduce Social Media?

Each month, I go to “New Teacher Training” run by our district. It is a monthly meeting for anyone new to the school district, regardless of age or... Read more

Can We Re-Purpose Punishment?

I began thinking about punishment when I was notified yesterday that one of my students would need some work to do as he served in school suspensio... Read more

Changing My Perspective

Our internet was out at school today (it’s okay, it came back on around lunchtime) and it gave me a chance to slow down a little bit during my plan... Read more

Student Blogs: What I Learned

Today I finally had the chance to get my students their blogs. After weeks of trial and error getting the site to work and email after email with ... Read more

Diane Rehm on Education Reform

Today during my plan period I happened to see a tweet from @ThalesDream about today’s Diane Rehm Show being focused on charter schools and educatio... Read more

Data Does Not Equal “Testing”

I’ve heard a lot of information in the last week, especially since moving to a new district. They had district-wide staff training for those of us ... Read more

Dan Spencer: Literacy in the Digital Age Update

I got a tweet from Dan this morning: “Good news! @bennettscience @tebotweets @missscott CitPat letting me run full version of my article online. On... Read more

Guest Post: Dan Spencer on Literacy in the Digital Age

Today’s post is actually from Dan Spencer, a technology coordinator in Michigan. Dan was recently asked to write an article for a local newspaper a... Read more

Google +1 Buttons

As I've been playing with Google+ over the last day or two, I've been figuring out some of the nuances reading articles from other bloggers and eve... Read more

Google+ First Impressions

I know there have been a deluge of Google+ blog posts written in the past 3 weeks or so, but I’m going to hop on the bandwagon this morning and giv... Read more

Moving Forward

Since April 18th, I have been sending out job applications all over the midwest. Few options were panning out as July rolled around. I was starti... Read more

Summer Thoughts

It is the morning of July 8th and I just now have time to sit down with some coffee and put some thoughts down that have been flying through my hea... Read more

What’s In a Name?

…or, “More Reflections on the Flipped Class.” I’ve been inundating myself with discussion on the Flipped Classroom recently. First, there was the ... Read more

What Does a Good Flipped Class Look Like?

The following is a co-post from The Daily Riff on what a good flipped classroom looks like: The Flipped Class What Does a Good One Look Like? “The ... Read more

Flipped Class Manifesto

I was at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park, CO last week at the 2011 Flipped Class Conference. This is my second year at the conference (... Read more

Notes on Organization

As my website and work has grown, I’ve tried to organize my resources and files a little bit better. There were some in my blog, on the main page, ... Read more

#Flipclass Conference – Day 3

Unfortunately, I need to leave the conference early today, so I’m writing before I hop on an airplane for a few hours. There is some great stuff be... Read more

#Flipclass11 Day 2

As we headed into day 2 of the flipped class conference, I was really excited about some of the discussions that are coming up with educators from ... Read more

#Flipclass11 Day 1

I haven’t written in a long time and it is primarily because I’ve been traveling for a couple of weeks from Korea. I have another longer post slat... Read more

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