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Voice and Choice! For blog reflections, Please pick 2-3 in total for chapters 1 and 2, you will reflect in comments and they can be separate comments or all in one, whichever fits you best: Answer a reflection question React… Continue Reading →
Teaching is an incredible profession! The highs are so HIGH, and the lows…so low. There are nights we stay up worrying about students, tough adult interactions, questioning our own instruction…yet they seem to balance out with the moments we connect… Continue Reading →
“That’s just another buzzword”, my very dear friend and former colleague said to me over coffee. I instantly felt defensive. We were talking about personalized learning, and I had read, and really enjoyed, Personalized Learning with Habits of the Mind. I worked… Continue Reading →
Your mindset when you attend any workshop, PD, conference, will have a significant impact on what YOU get out of it. How many times have we walked into a conference with a bad attitude (alone or as a crowd), only… Continue Reading →
The dynamics of teacher interaction have a profound effect on the schools we work in. There have been times that I have observed (and, while it pains me to admit – even participated in) teacher to teacher behavior that was… Continue Reading →
About a month ago, Christopher Edmin tweeted about the importance of hanging around teachers you want to be like, “The kind of teacher you will become is directly related to the kind of teachers you associate with. Avoid people who… Continue Reading →
Last Thursday I was jazzed up for 7th grade Spanish class- I was trying something new, it was fun and engaging. My first class was a slam dunk…and my second class was a disaster. Behaviors were escalating and starting to… Continue Reading →