As I look back on this fantastic year of conversations and learning, I feel so blessed to be in this conversation with you all. You have helped me grow as a learner, leader and human being. It is both insightful and inspiring to see the posts that most resonated with you and our community as… Continue Reading
Category Archives: MOST POPULAR
Best and Blessed – Top Posts of 2012
Filed Under: 21st CENTURY EDUCATION, BLOG LITERACY, HABITUDES, MOST POPULAR, PASSION DRIVEN, SOCIAL MEDIA, TWITTER, YOU MATTER
My Holiday Wish for You – #YOUMATTER
As I woke up this morning, thinking of the best way to share with you how much I love and appreciate your presence in my life, my friend Jure Klepic sent the following video and message to all his friends and followers. There is nothing like a feeling when someone you dont know, you never meet… Continue Reading
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Celebrating Teachers – A Collection of Online Resources
Research consistently shows that highly skilled, engaging teachers can eliminate the achievement gap, and I couldn’t agree more!
Technology now allows us to share our teaching gifts with one another in more efficient and effective ways.Teaching and Learning Resources are a representation and a celebration of what passionate and dedicated teachers accomplish everyday.
Launching Nonfiction Unit of Study
I am so thrilled to be able to spend the entire week with students talking about the importance of nonfiction study. Each day I will have a chance to explore the strategies that readers and writers use to communicate information across texts, mediums, and content areas. I want to ensure that student understand that literacy… Continue Reading
The Path Towards a Passion Driven Classroom
Knowing the power of passion vs. using its power for transformational purposes are two very different things. In education, what we "do" does not always align with what we know and value. The gap widens as we are told to "meet the standards", "prepare for the tests," and "cover the curriculum". Passion, creativity, and initiative… Continue Reading
Reading WITHOUT Meaning – Part 1 of 4
I am a reader. I am passionate about reading and even more passionate about teaching future readers to understand its power, complexity, and beauty. It is magical to watch them as they turn the squiggles on the page (or screen) into joyous,personal meaning. That's what it's all about- right? That's why we teach students about… Continue Reading
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Parent Involvement – “What’s Your View?”
The involvement of parents and families in schools is often cited as one of the most important ways to improve education. High levels of parental involvement correlate with : improved academic performance higher test scores more positive attitudes toward school higher homework completion rates fewer placements in special education academic perseverance lower dropout rates fewer… Continue Reading
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26 Keys to Twitter Success
\ Whether teacher or learner, Twitter is an invaluable tool in your personal learning network. I've found the following lessons key to having a successful Twitter Experience. I believe that Twitter will become a mainstream tool in both business AND education in the coming year, and we would all by wiser if we join in… Continue Reading
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My Twitter Engagement Formula
I have not been shy about sharing my passion and love for Twitter. It is the most influential tool in my personal learning network. Here’s why I love Twitter: Twitter allows me to share and glean resources I can use in the classroom I meet and connect with other educators from around the world whom… Continue Reading
26 Keys to Student Engagement
My Joyful Jubilant Learning, colleague, David Zinger recently started an Employee Engagement alphabet. Engagement is such a hot topic in education, I thought this was a great idea for educators to follow the lead. So, here it goes: 26 Keys to Student Engagement. Authenticity: We hear it all the time, "Why do we need to… Continue Reading
7 Power Thinking Tools: Inferring Strategy
Good readers are like good detectives. As readers, we play the role of detective as we actively seek to uncover the author’s hidden meanings. Writers do not give the reader entire messages or meanings — writers slowly leak meaning by laying out very deliberate clues. Writers expect their readers to find these clues and use… Continue Reading
