the third rail

This weekend was the CUE conference in Palm Springs. I was lucky enough to be able to present with my great friend, Nori, on ways shift your teaching by matching 21 c. tools with the more traditional teaching methods. Our handouts are here if you are interested. I loved the weekend and I am already [...]

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In a perfect world, educators would be able to personalize lessons and tailor them to the unique needs and interests of each student. Alas, until the system is disrupted a lot more, that will not happen.  So what is a teacher to do?

Differentiate whenever you can, it may not be perfect for every       student but [...]

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Every year teachers get 30ish new students. Now, they passed the previous grade and are here together; their learning is pretty much in the same place right?
Well, probably not and that’s why educators need to differentiate instruction.
Let’s look at the 1’s again. These are the students who are so far removed from the core content [...]

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“Here Comes Everybody”-style Boycott
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Gullivers Travels
I have been thinking lately (when you are finished with comments/laughing continue) that YES teachers are able to do so many great things. And good teachers make it look fairly easy. The thing is – nothing major is put on us but cummulative effect of all these little, extra things can bring down the [...]

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Well this is the first post for my new blog. Many more things to come, I have really missed have a web presence and it will be interesting to try to run a blog vs. website. The final push that got me going is from Chris Bell – thanks!
So it works like this:

Link your [...]

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