Prioritizing things
I loved blogging each night for those hundreds of nights. I want to get back to it but I also have been making sure to…
I loved blogging each night for those hundreds of nights. I want to get back to it but I also have been making sure to…
I stumbled into something a while back – students are uncomfortable with expressing high goals or ambitions for themselves. At least in a large group…
I had a streak of about 240 blog posts in a row before this past break. I imagined I could be like Seth Godin and…
Here I shared all the work that went into making what will someday be the ‘world’s coolest classroom. It is still a work in progress!
I waited and got my hopes up high that technology was going to start to transforming education. That didnt happen. Things are changing but we…
We need to be giving kids more opportunities to create. Just straight up create. We can list all the reasons it is difficult or expensive……
I made this video to say something important that I think we ignore in our schools. I consider it just as important as ‘hard work’…
The term ‘The 21st Century classroom’ was such a buzz word back in my college days. There were such high hopes for technology to change…
I’ve been surprised a number of times as I fill in this story bank and tonight is no different. 39 stories about being vulnerable have…
I had my 7th graders twice two years ago. After we did our Innovative Arts thing, we had ‘Strengths Class’. It got to be a…
The conventional wisdom is to be on social media, grow an audience, and leverage that audience into all sorts of opportunities. This was exhausting to…
Today, a conversation with a past student has me thinking about how much I let students lead. It has been easier to keep students all…
There is a little side class on creativity coming up, this time for adults. To teach it well, I feel like need to understand it…
It has been fun to do all the big picture work, work that started years ago. But after so much progress, I need to prep…
Tonight I filled in everything that I could in the ‘Happiness and joy’ column of my new story bank; I filled up all of the…
I want to be a better storyteller and begin really bringing the ‘new vision for education’ to life. To help with this, I started a…
Today was spent planning the first days of school this fall and the pieces are really coming together. It will be all new and familiar…
Making a new thing is exhausting and not just the actual work that needs to be done. A new idea takes hours to stew in…
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