Reaching Their Potential
On Monday the MLB (Baseball) draft started and one of the Mariner Bloggers that I follow Jeff Sullivan had this to say about the…
Category: Random Thoughts
30 Years in the Education System
As another school year draws to a close, I find myself both nervous and excited about the future. by JacobYarboroughPhotography For 30 years, or…
Why We Need To Teach Social Networking
From Venturebeat.com The girl, 17, had been helping her grandmother count the 72-year-old woman’s personal savings. Apparently wishing to impress her friends and the…
NYT Summer Reading Contest…What If
A teacher brought this contest ran by the New York Times to my attention the other day as they were starting to prepare for…
Creating E-Books with Kindergarteners
OK….I’ll admit over the past couple of months I’ve been hard on primary teachers on this blog. I have talked about my struggles with…
Why There Is No One Way To Go 1:1
This past weekend I flew to Vietnam to spend two days with the Senior Management Team (SMT) of the British International School of Vietnam…
1 Million Edits, TED-ED, and Hall of Fames
It seems like forever since I’ve sat down and blogged…..and yet at the same time it seems I spend all day blogging. Between school,…
Paying Attention to Attention
Last week I gave a short presentation to the High School student body here at ISB. I talked a bit about what I was…
Living the Dream
(Stories from my side of the field parts 1, 2, 3, 4) Doesn’t he know better than to give a test on game day?…
Teaching Social Networks
Some rights reserved by Brice Reul In two weeks time I have to give a presentation to our high school student body. I always…