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What’s Your Point?
Punctuation. The four types of sentences. I learned them. Every year for like ten years throughout school. But the mark at then end of your life? I think we tend to float around, accepting a question...
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When We Try to Define Everything
I look around at the last few years of my teaching and I see definitions. Labels. Everywhere. Assessment for Learning, Response to Intervention. Common Core. Standards. Differentiation. Data. Higher...
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Even When It’s Difficult
You know those things in your life that aren’t just “things” or a “job” but are part of you? The stuff that you pour your heart and soul into, not because you are trying to outdo someone else, nor...
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Taking Learning to Whole New Level
Throughout the end of the school year, students worked on our NASA Microgravity Experiment. In July, I’ll be flying the experiment on the NASA ZeroG plane with my awesome team of teachers from around...
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Looking Back: Evolution of a Classroom
When I think back to how my classroom has evolved over the last ten years, so much has changed. But, many things have remained the same. From the very first moment I stepped into my classroom I knew...
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When the Real Learning Begins
When I think back to what it was like when I went to school, I can remember some things so well. My comfort zone? It was everything. If I got an A- that was getting too close to a B, I worked harder....
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Is Your School Leaking?
I’ve worked in many different schools. I’ve seen schools where the culture is like a family. A place of love and learning. I’ve also seen schools where it’s not. Where tearing each other down is...
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Making Dreams Happen
I’m puzzled by two movements in education. It’s not that I don’t agree with them, it’s that I don’t see how these two things ever got separated from our classrooms and learning. Maker Spaces and the...
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Learning In Zero G
Dear Global Friends, Would you like to join us this summer and be virtually connected to our flight on the NASA ZeroG aircraft? We’ve been experimenting in our classrooms with a variety of fabrics and...
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Give Me A Break
I underestimate it every time. That feeling when you just escape? You just go somewhere and do something you absolutely love. Something that feeds your soul. Something creative. An escape to a place...
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Sometimes our very words, and the way we present them, can fence in our kids’ thinking. In our effort to guide our students, we have to be careful that we don’t just set up situations where we are...
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Learning Is Not a Game
We’ve made learning into a game. Hoops to jump through. Levels to pass. Things to know. We’ve set it up so kids play the game to earn points. Even worse, we sort and resort those points and assume it...
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Your Story
What’s your story? Your school’s story? Are you telling it? If you aren’t, someone else probably is. Someone who doesn’t live it and breathe it the way you do. At the end of the day? Our story is all...
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10 Ways to Use Haiku Deck In Education
Looking for a GREAT presentation app for your iPad? Check out Haiku Deck. It’s a great way to create a quick presentation using the IPad! I’m already loving how easy it is to use. I love that you can...
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The Most Valuable Thing
All the technology in the world won’t make you a better educator. It’s more than a device or a tool. Sure, the technology allows you to connect more and to collaborate easily. To share a project with a...
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What if?
What if the things we do in schools slowly chip away at a student’s passion? What if the limits we place on their ideas, imaginations, and thoughts that fall outside the box begin to make them tone...
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Make Sharing the Default
As I sat in George Couros’s presentation yesterday morning, I was struck by one simple line: Make sharing the “default.” Collaboration. Discussions. Reflection. Real sharing. The kind that pushes...
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Bubbling Over With Learning
I know teachers aren’t supposed to have pets, but what about students? If you read my blog for any length of time, you know that I believe learning should be real. I love the idea of having a...
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