Creating Momentum From Mistakes
I am excited to talk about one of my favorite shifting schools resources. If you follow us on social media, you may have seen…
Author: Jeff Utecht
I started blogging in 2005 and found it such a powerful way to reflect and share my thinking about technology, this generation, and how we prepare students for their future not our past.
Fishing for Questions In our Classrooms
Today we’re going to focus on a resource we used in several of our trainings last year, we call it the “Let’s Go Fishing…
Your Classroom Mission Statement
This week we explore an idea that has meant a lot to me, not only as an educator and a business owner, but as…
The Power of Ownership in Distance Learning
I know that many of you work with families/students who come from poverty. One thing we need to remind teachers is that what we’re…
Inequity Should Not Equal Inaction
It’s been a crazy March, to say the least. Here in the state of Washington schools have been closed since March 17th and will…
Virtual School Tips and Recommendations
NCCE 2020 here in Seattle has just wrapped up. NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around…
You can be a Paperless Classroom or a Blended Learning Classroom, but you can’t be both.
Over the past few weeks, I have had a couple of conversations with teachers and people in the business world that I just want…
Whack-A-Mole Is Not A Classroom Management Strategy That Works
CAUTION: This software is not a classroom management strategy
Do you assess the process of learning or the product of learning?
How might you have to rethink your lesson/unit/approach so that you can gather, or collect something that shows learning occurring in the moment? What…
What is Engagement?
Last Saturday we had a thunderstorm move through Seattle…we don’t get them very often around here so a storm with over 2200 lightning strikes…