Offering time and services

I was in contact again today with Dr. Eric. He will be coming to our next meeting, which will be on March 8th at 8:15- He would love to be a part of what we are doing and has taken the liberty of talking with a few helthcare professionals in the area. A personal trainer, [...]

Meeting today

I thought that was a great meeting today. Many good ideas and a lot of enthusiasm. We will use the faculty basketball game as a kick off to the different activities that we will organize over the next couple of months. We will put the recipes into effect this week and then we will work [...]

See kids you will use this some day

Interesting article in the NYT today about wikipedia.
Middlebury College jumps the gun here a bit and bans the citing of wikipedia in essays and assessments. It is important to note that they did not ban its use, as that would be ridiculous, but there is a bigger question here: obviously we need to move towards [...]

Where is the line?

The New York Times today printed this article about blogs- Debtors Search for Discipline via Blogs . It seems that these people are putting their financial information on their blogs in order to find a support group in an effort to pay down their own dept and manage their spending habits. As I read this [...]

Long time, no post!

It is time to start this blog up again after a brief hiatus. I hope everyone enjoyed the massage day. I heard some really positive things from those who were able to take advantage of it. It is exactly what we need sometimes. Maybe not a massage but some way to just “power down” for [...]

Are we ready?

How are we going to prepare students for jobs in the future that do not even exist yet? How much has our job changed in just the last 5 years and with what is expected of a school changing every day, is it impossible to keep up? The following was posted in a blog I [...]

going against the handbook

I have recently ben looking through my school’s handbook and I am begining to realize how out of date it is becoming. Teachers in my building are doing wonderful things with technology. Using cutting edge software with their smartboards that allows them to record entire lessons and make those lessons, along with the power point [...]