Guest Post via @wmjackson: The Value of Social Learning Networks for Educators

EdCamp Leadership 2017 in Baker County Florida The Value of Social Learning Networks for Educators by William Jackson Educator in elementary and higher education The infusion of technology in education requires that educators rely on each other to create opportunities for instant and relevant professional development. Creating PLN’s – Professional Learning Networks that share information from tech to […]

Guest Post via @ClarksRoom: Blink

Last week I finished the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. If you have never heard of it, this book is about how we think. More specifically, it’s about how we think about thinking, how most decisions are made much quicker than we realize, and how our brain makes decisions without us truly recognizing that we have made […]

Guest Post via @briteeyes39: #whatsummerbreak VS. #summerbreak – A Teacher’s hashtag

Why do I often feel the need to convince “others” (Meaning people who are not teachers, do not work with teachers, or are not married or partners of teachers), that my summer vacation is well-deserved and/or not really a break at all? Which, by the way, is exactly what I am doing in this blog […]

Guest Post via @Clarksroom: Move Your Bus

I just finished a book that was given to me to read over the summer called Move Your Bus by Ron Clark that had many great points about organizational change…but something didn’t sit well with me. The main idea of the book is that any organization has 5 types of people trying to move the […]

Guest post via @amgonza: Small Changes for the Final Stretch of the School Year

As we enter this final stretch of the school year, spring fever is in the air and everyone is eager for summer vacation. Warm and sunny days make for beautiful weather, but the classroom climate can be quite tempestuous as students are ready for the school year to be over. They slouch in their seats, […]

Guest Post via @BriteEyes49: “The Marble Run Challenge!”- STEMazing!

Sometimes you get tired of the “new” thing in education. Well, I was tired of hearing, reading, and/or discussing “STEM” or “STEAM”, whichever you prefer. I really didn’t understand what the big deal was until we participated in Jen Wagner’s “Marble Run Challenge.” Now don’t get me wrong, my kids code, we integrate tech, etc, […]

Guest Post via @SwinehartJulie: Three Do’s and Don’ts of Implementing Readers Workshop

I’m just wrapping up my eighteenth year of teaching English Language Arts. For the first seventeen, I taught in a pretty predictable, traditional manner: assign a book, a reading schedule, give quizzes, poster projects, assign essays, administer exams, and show the movie. This year was so different. In September, I started the workshop model in […]

Guest Post via @ndnred: Instructional Coaching and Student Work

The title says it all!!! One of my main priorities as an instructional coach is to develop capacity in teachers and therefore impact student learning. As I reflect (and I do that a lot) on this school year as it gets closer and closer to ending, I can’t help but be proud of the work […]

Guest Post via @clarksroom: A Battle of Wits!

We tend to over-complicate things. Maybe that statement is itself.an over-simplification, but I think it is true. In education we tend to make things way more complicated than they need to be, at least I think so. As I go throughout my day as a middle school administrator, it seems I have to make a […]

Guest Post via @SwinehartJulie: Design Thinking and Choice in Summer Reading

Summer reading assignments are a hotly debated topic this time of year, especially when it’s tough to reconcile the workshop model’s foundation of student challenge and choice with something like a required reading program. What’s a teacher to do? It’s a given that students need to read over the summer. When teachers and students have built a […]

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