The way that we make writers is to make writing more authentic: I love the way in which you have mixed memes into your writing and brought out the most salient points for others to take and share. I agree with you that we should stop the artificiality of on-demand …
What a wonderful example of shared student work: I love how transparent you are being about your children’s work. By including all of their responses, as well as the analysis you have done upon them, you are allowing us to draw our own conclusions and see them in the context …
Trusting teachers is essential. How we get there is still up for debate. I really like the ways in which you have dissected the building of trust. The Vulnerability and Accountability sections are particularly spot on when I look at the biggest shifts that we might be driving toward in …
The people that you are at the PD buffet with matter. Those who support you in making better choices are better than those that keep you going back for the same items again and again. I think the most important aspect of what you have identified is that you do …
The people that you are at the PD buffet with matter. Those who support you in making better choices are better than those that keep you going back for the same items again and again. I think the most important aspect of what you have identified is that you do …
I have been looking for this capability in Google Sheets for a very long time, and finally someone built it! Big thanks to Christopher Evans for this. When data is color-coded and the only constant is the color of the cells or the fonts, sorting your data can be difficult. …
I have been looking for this capability in Google Sheets for a very long time, and finally someone built it! Big thanks to Christopher Evans for this. When data is color-coded and the only constant is the color of the cells or the fonts, sorting your data can be difficult. …
I didn’t mean for this to be a rant, but I think I was on the right blog to leave this comment: I was once a young teacher. It is not so far into my distant memory that I can’t vividly remember exactly what it felt like to be nervous …
Kristen Swanson models reflection better than almost anyone else I know. I find myself trying to rationalize this journey all of the time. But, it isn’t that I need a better answer to why I engage in community the way that I do, but rather it is that I need …
Setting goals for teachers is hard. First, I think these goals are brilliant. In particular, I think these goals are some of the best that I have seen for PD: 1. What is possible to do with technology that could not be done without it 2. Understand that learner questions …