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Three Responses to Failure

Things go wrong. It’s a fact that we have to embrace and learn to live with if we want to be great teachers. I’ve learned some of my most valuable ... Read more

Do You Want to Write a Guest Post?

I want to try something new. In addition to the writing I normally do, I want to give some more people a chance to publish a guest post on my blog.... Read more

Flipped Classrooms: Let’s Change The Discussion

NOTE: This is a cross-post of a piece I wrote for SmartBlogs. You can see the original here. Since Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk, the Khan Academy has b... Read more

Doing What We Do

It is believed that the average adult makes 35,000 decisions every day. There is even research that suggests that decision fatigue plagues many pro... Read more

One Month Later…

On July 2nd, I wrote a short post about taking some time off for the month. Well, the month is over, I haven’t written a single article, and now I’... Read more

Venus Flyby

Flickr CC, howzey Tuesday, June 5th and Wednesday, June 6th, we have a great opportunity to see the planet Venus travel across the face of the sun.... Read more

The Flipped Classroom in eSchoolNews

I wrote an article with Aaron Sams regarding common perceptions and misconceptions surrounding the flipped classroom in an effort to move the discu... Read more

Flipped Classroom Exit Letters

I asked my students on the last day of school to write letters to next year’s students, whoever they are. I took all of those responses, removed th... Read more

Opportunities

I sat outside this morning drinking coffee and watching a bumblebee flop its way through a camellia, hunting for nectar. With each foray, her hairy... Read more

Three Example Flips

In response to some emails and tweets I received on my last post, I decided to write three short examples of flipping that can happen at varying le... Read more

Redesigning Learning in a Flipped Classroom

Flickr CC, TheAlieness GiselaGiardinoÂ²Â³ A comment I hear frequently after a visit is, “That looked nothing like what I thought it would.” It’s a ... Read more

Teacher Appreciation Week

At the start of teacher appreciation week, I feel selfish. “I’m a teacher and I deserve to be recognized. Yes, I’ll take a PTA lunch. Thank you for... Read more

Moving the Flipped Class

I have not written for almost two weeks now. Half of the reason is because of writer’s block, another half because school is crazy, and a third hal... Read more

Ugly Learning

Unfortunately, we are entrenched in an age of education that wants to be “pretty.” Students are all reaching “mastery” in every subject and they al... Read more

How to Create an Effective Study Guide

Final exams and standardized testing are right around the corner for us. My students have the obligation to sit in a large room and take multiple c... Read more

Flipped Classroom Point

I wrote the following essay as a response to the ISTE Community Point/Counterpoint question: “To Flip, or Not to Flip?” You can see the discussion ... Read more

Supporting Students in a #Flipclass

I saw a tweet come through the feed this morning from Brad Campbell and Vanessa Alander regarding the practice of “implementing” a flipped classroo... 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

“Academic Bowl” Paradox

Last night, I read the science questions for the Indiana Academic Bowl our school hosted. The city schools all sent teams of students to participat... Read more

A Letter to Students and Parents

I began writing my course audit for AP Biology this week, which is always a fun thing to do. Part of my course description includes a short letter ... Read more

Change Teaching by Changing Grading

I have made a few changes in my chemistry class recently that came more out of pragmatic necessity than anything else, but these changes have cause... Read more

I Can

In the spirit of full disclosure, this has been a discouraging week for me. Students are antsy and in need of a break. I am fighting some old battl... Read more

I Can’t Teach Science

Ever since the State of the Union address on January 24th, I have seen more blog posts and articles on STEM than I have in a very, very long time. ... Read more

Don’t Miss Today

Teachers are planners, in case you didn’t know. We like to plan units weeks ahead of time, plan for technology or behavior issues, and even plan fo... Read more

Power in Online Video

I’ve had a crazy week. On Tuesday and Thursday I worked with Brett Clark and Brian Bobbitt sharing the Flipped Classroom with almost 100 teachers a... Read more

The Flipped Class and Shifting Paradigms

It is a new year and a new semester for us and I’ve been thinking a lot about the Flipped Classroom and what role it plays in my teaching. While I ... Read more

I Am Responsible

I recently overheard a conversation in which two teachers were discussing a particular student that came to school and simply “existed.” He didn’t ... Read more

The Flipped Class is Here to Stay

…or, “The Difference Between a Fad and a Usable, Meaningful Tool is the Teacher.” I missed #EdChat…again. It’s one of the downsides of living just ... Read more

The Greatest Struggle, Part II

I’m trying to capture the small moments each day with short posts. I feel like I glaze over these moments too quickly and I lose out on one of the ... Read more

The Hidden Message

I had an interesting conversation with our pre-service teacher this morning concerning a make up quiz she had given to her chemistry class. In shor... Read more

Culture of Change

A few weeks ago, I came to Twitter lamenting the abysmal grades from a quiz I had given. You’d think I had learned my lesson at that point…well, I ... 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

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

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