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…
Category: Teaching & Learning
Posts on classroom practice, student engagement, assessment, and how learning happens in schools and online.
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…
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…
Practice, not Mastery
The idea of practice, not mastery has been on my mind a lot these past few days…so it’s only fitting that its part of our…
Enjoying the FAIL process
There is nothing better to practice FAIL (First Attempt In Learning) then buying a house. Just about a year ago my wife and I…
Getting Excited
The Day 2 #EduroChallenge as we start school is all about getting excited about learning. There are moments when I’m not excited about learning…