The Principal of the Online School in my School District asked me a really interesting question regarding the growth of our vision within the district and the region. She asked, “What are the 2 or 3 big pieces that we need from the system/district?” I was taken aback by this …
Cores 1+4: Discuss-on: Continue to work in your groups on your Survival Simulations. Extensions: Finalize goals and what-if’s. Core 2: Discuss-on: Continue to work on your Utopian Art handouts. Extension: Finish your Utopian Art handout. Core 3: Share-on: Who won the Image Grammar workout? What do the terms mean? Why …
Today I am working with elementary teachers who are writing courses for an online school. Whatever your stance on virtual schools, the most resistance is in the elementary sector (a totally subjective statement, by the way). Many of these teachers (who haven’t even started writing their curriculum) have had push-back …
Cores 1+4: The Documents for The Survival Simulation. Copy them over to your own google docs and share them with your group. (Only one person from the group should do this so that you don’t end up with duplicate copies.) The Cast The Goals What-If’s I am out teaching teachers …
Core 1: Talk about survival simulations. (Print off a new copy of the PDF if you need one.) What is required? Who is in your group? What are the first steps? Extensions: Start to brainstorm (and write down) who your character is in the survival simulation. Core 2: Level-Two words, …
Cores 1+4: Write-on: How did The Shakers peel back the veneer of life? What are life’s essentials? Is there beauty in simplicity, in organization or is there beauty in complexity and chaos? Extension: Write a paragraph about a day in the life as an individual with only the survival layer …
On Friday, I had the distinct pleasure of listening to some of the most unique voices in the discussion over Dan Pink’s book, A Whole New Mind. These voices did not come from an “expert” being paid thousands of dollars for a breakfast engagement. They did not come from a …
I had the pleasure of observing another teacher in my school today who teaches the 8th grade. We are creating a partnership of practice (or something with less alliteration) so that we can find out exactly what good teaching looks like from different personalities, in different classrooms, with different demographics. …
Cores 1+4: Personal Curriculum case studies: Putsal How is this authentic? What do you think they learned through their experience? Training a horse How should she have shown that she learned something? The Five Senses Is this too small to be personal curriculum? Check-in on Personal Curriculum. Extensions: Continue to …
Although this is not my regular mode of blog posts, I have found that it provides an outlet for the PD that would normally just be within a given context, but that other people might find useful. I created these images for eDCSD, the Online School for Douglas County. Feel …