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Digital Fluency Project
During a recent school governance conference, the attendees, who include school directors and board members, reflected on how schools of the future will be different from what we know today. Our...
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I am writing this week’s posting from 44G, my assigned seat on the plane returning me to Brasilia. It has been nearly two weeks since I departed from Brazil to attend a series of international teacher...
View ArticleBold in Vision
“Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.” Lailah Gifty Akita. After a yearlong review process, involving regular feedback and contributions from parents, students, and...
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Chaos Theory
“A mathematic theory that deals with complex systems whose behavior is highly sensitive to slight changes in conditions, so that small alterations can give rise to strikingly great consequences.” This...
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Does Anyone Have Data That Supports Technology As Having a Net Positive...
As I work my way through the first months of changes in my life from “not working in a school” for the first time in a decade and a half, I am the first to feel ruffled feathers by this question as I...
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Not So Hot for Teacher?
Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education by Sonny Magana, Corwin, 152 pp., $29.95 To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions;...
View ArticleThe Time is Now
There is a moment in the morning when everything feels right. The sun peaks through the trees making the world outside a beautiful shade of gold. There is stillness. That feeling of calm fades when I...
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Riding the Wave: A Disruption Epiphany
There comes a point in surfing where you either commit to where that force of nature is going to bring you or you duck under and hope for another day. It feels like we’ve been ducking under for a long...
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Re-Design, Don’t Reopen
Are we going to be the same but different post-Covid? I read a post recently that said re-opening is going to be like playing three dimensional chess in a hurricane on one leg. Ok, maybe in New York...
View ArticleTOp Ten Teacher Interview Questions for 2020
Describe your dream house and where it would be, etc. What will be the reason you quit this job if you ever do? What do you need from our school in order for you to be a success? What would you be...
View ArticleSurviving The Worst Case of the Mondays…ever
2020 may go down in recent history as the worst case of the Mondays….EVER! I don’t know about you, but I experienced long stretches of time that felt like Monday was repeating itself day after day and...
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