Intrepid Teacher

Earlier today, I popped into a meeting to talk with a few teachers about whether or not they would be interested in my new Blogging Club. They had expressed interest in the past, so I figured they would be a good starting point. We had a quick chat about the importance of teachers using the [...]

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People are afraid of change, and experience has taught me that teachers in particular are no different. While we claim to be resolute in teaching our students how to discover the skills in becoming life long learners, realistically many of us seem to hit the occasional wall when it comes to our own learning. If [...]

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For the last week or so my brain has been on fire. In the classroom I am facilitating three very complicated, exhausting, yet rewarding projects with my students. One dealing with creating art, specifically poetry/songwriting to affect social; the second is a standards-based, student-designed project, connecting the lessons learned from the fall of the Roman [...]

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Found this link on Twitter and thought I’d share.

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So what does all of this mean? I have spent the last several hours immersed in this new network of educators. I feel drained and overwhelmed. There is so much out there. So much information, so many tools, so many people to communicate with. I am wondering if I shouldn’t simply crawl back in my [...]

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