Problems that come with a makerspace, solved
Below are the problems that I have been struggling with for years. Each one has been a huge mental load and each is on the…
Turtle Art – Getting started in a middle school classroom
Here is the link to the coolest way to learn coding! https://www.playfulinvention.com/webturtleart/ Coming soon: All sorts of resources in getting started using this! It’ll be…
Gaining Steam
It has been a few months since I was daily blogging… and what crazy few months it has been. This summer, I collected and distilled…
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…
Looking at goals with students
I stumbled into something a while back – students are uncomfortable with expressing high goals or ambitions for themselves. At least in a large group…
Coming back fresh
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…
Projects to make an awesome classroom
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!
Edtech isn’t going to fix education
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…
Learning by creating
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……
Something just as important as hard work
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 21st century classroom…
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…
Adding stories about vulnerability and authenticity to my story bank
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…
The 22nd Century Classroom | Let’s Change Education Ourselves S1:E9
I really enjoyed making these videos, they challenged me to think through a vision for education in the future. They pushed me out of my comfort zone …
What is ‘Innovative Arts’ and Puzzle Shift Create?
https://www.puzzleshiftcreate.com/
This is a work in progress - do you have any feedback on this explanation?
I will be trying to craft it into a s…
Bringing back Strengths Class
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 long game
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…
Letting students lead more
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…
Teaching Creativity, Attempt #6
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…
And back to the grind
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…
Emotion Story Bank Day #2: Happiness and Joy
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…