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Posts tagged reflection

Wrapping My 2024 Goals

2024 is nearly finished and one of my last things to do is think over my goals for this year. One year ago, I wrote down some things I was hoping t... Read more

Goals Check In

We're about halfway through 2024 and I haven't blogged in a while, so here's a simple check in on the goals I set at the start of the year, particu... Read more

New Year, New Goals

What better way to start 2024 than with a blog post. I finished 2023 with 86 blog posts which is far more than I've written in several years. I was... Read more

Two Weeks Ahead: A Reflection

Back in November, I wrote about steps I was taking to improve my lesson planning habits. Six weeks later, I'm reflecting back on how I improved and... Read more

Owning My Own Attitudes

Yesterday, I did something dumb: I let my own attitude get in the way of modeling appropraite responses to behaviors. It started with a simple seat... Read more

My Friend MAET

This degree has taken me a long time. I started in 2014 and thought I would get it finished right away. Life changes brought that to a stop, which ... Read more

My Best Getting Started Strategy

I work a reduced schedule during the summer and one thing I constantly run into is not really knowing where to start when I come into work after se... Read more

Learning Communities

Community is still heavy on my mind this week. It's easy to argue for authentic learning experiences. We want students to relate learning to the "r... Read more

Because Everything is a Priority...

My job for the last six years years has been to identify and provide professional development for staff. We set goals, looked at upcoming challenge... Read more

Revisiting My Personal Productivity

This fall, I started to revisit my personal productivity habits. We lost a team member last spring and we won't be replacing that role, which means... Read more

Quince House

I just finished packing up our first house, to be put on the market tomrorow morning after living here for eight years. As I moved from room to roo... Read more

Spring

We heard the first group long before we could see them. Almost as small as long-distance airliners, the Sandhill crane call is distinct, clear. The... Read more

More Redefinition...

From a post last week where I continued to refine my research question: How does continuity of study (ie, a PD sequence rather than a one-off works... Read more

Revising the Question...Again

I started a series of professional development workshops with teachers this week. It's a series of half-day work sessions with full departments and... Read more

Potential Action Research

I'm taking a graduate course this semester on action research, part of which is defining and designing a question to tackle. Most of the coursework... Read more

I Took a Deep Breath and Contributed to an Open Source Project

I've been playing around with building websites and self-teaching myself (is that redundant?) web development languages. I feel like I've crossed s... Read more

Deconstructing Hattie's Effect Sizes

When taking the necessary in-depth look at Visible Learning with the eye of an expert, we find not a mighty castle but a fragile house of cards tha... Read more

Listening Has Changed My Coaching

Aside from trying to be as productive as I can every day, listening - truly listening to people - has completely changed my coaching. Elena Agular ... Read more

Reading Summaries

I've decided to fire up a new, static website to reflect on books I read this year. In all honesty, much of this is bring prompted by my grad schoo... Read more

Reflector

I wrote this as a post to a discussion forum for grad school. It seemed fitting to post on the blog as well. It’s a response to a children’s story ... Read more

Rebooting My Coaching

I planned, and ran, a really unsuccessful series of PD for a group of teachers this year. Unfortunately, I wasn’t wise enough to accept the non-suc... Read more

When Class Itself is a Distraction

I’m going to stop doing labs in one of my classes this semester. Regardless of the supports or steps I put in place, there is a general refusal (sa... Read more

Start of Year Notes

It seems appropriate to bookend my summer writing hiatus with some notes on the start of the year on August 6th. I’ve got a lot of things planned a... Read more

In the Silence

In the silence, a shuffle is a landslide. Clicks and ticks shake the air. Furrowed brows rattle individual hairs. Teaching is a human invention, th... Read more

The Solemn Duty of Educating

Featured image is creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Raed Mansour The community is suffering. Students are frustrated and they... Read more

Why I Quit Teaching

A post caught my attention the other day and I'm usually not one to write response pieces, but I can't stop thinking about this. This post is about... Read more

Three Things I Should Have Done in College

I got to speak with a group of preservice teachers this morning at the University of Evansville. Heading into the class, I was thinking about what ... Read more

It Is Up to Me

I have learned more this year than ever before and I keep coming back to one inescapable truth: If I want education to change, it is up to me to ch... Read more

Heroes and Villains

We have a saying in the science department here: students lack mental stamina. They are faced with problems, and instead of working together to fin... Read more

Why I Teach

Before Thanksgiving break, I gave my classes a short evaluation. It was totally anonymous and they were asked about things they liked, things they ... Read more

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