Collateral Learning

We hear it all the time- gripe, gripe, gripe.  Faculty and team meetings get lost among all the complaints about students and learning and administration and parents and lack of texts and lack of supplies and the broken copier and the pathetic lunch options and on and on and on.  In facilitating a discussion the [...]

As a teacher I knew that the reason I was in the classroom was to ensure that the students received the best education I could offer.  Anything less than my best wasn’t good enough.  As their teacher and mentor I served to ensure that they had all the tools needed to further better their education.   [...]

My first year teaching, a couple of my colleagues gave me some great advice that has always stuck with me.  Joe had been a huge influence on me- he had been my Senior English teacher and when I had gone back to teach for my Alma Mater, he made me feel welcomed as a colleague [...]

While skimming through my feeds (okay, so I’m cleaning out my feeds again since there are over 1000 of them, again), I saw that a number of postings were coming from Edutopia and other sources that focused on the issue of Netiquette.  I’ve had a number of teachers all ask me about this over the [...]