Reflection

I have fallen into a rut of sorts lately. I have gotten so caught up in the mundane day to day tasks of being an administrator that I have been forgetting to learn. Well actually I have been forgetting to process what I learn. A while back I posted about balance in one’s life and [...]

How do we own learning?

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about teaching and learning and technology and how it all fits together. Partly because it I am in contact with it every single day in some way or another and partly because I am looking for blog post ideas. I see what teachers are doing in [...]

Wasting Time Learning

I have recently been involved in some “twitter” talk about learning and ways that people are going about it these days. I have also come across some blog posts on this topic and everyone seems to have the same thoughts running through their head. It seems that we are all procrastinators and that even though [...]

Survey says…..

I am introducing an excellent workshop this week entitled “Supporting Your Digital Child,” and in gathering some resources for the introduction speech I came across this visual. In keeping with my last few posts, I thought that this illustrated perfectly what I have been thinking.
The “internet stigma” as I have come to know it is [...]

Grammar and me…or is it I?

I was talking with a Language Arts teacher today about observing a future lesson. The conversation eventually turned to the importance of “teaching grammar” to our students. Now as a former Language Arts teacher myself I have thought about this quite extensively over the past 5 or so years. I began teaching in 1997 and [...]

Hats off!!!

This is a self reflection post and it is keeping in line with the title of this blog. There are no links to other posts or articles because this is all me, for whatever that is worth.
I am still thinking about this today, a full day after the experience. Part of our job as educators, [...]

Share the Wealth

The nice thing about blogging is that it’s okay to take a hiatus from posting to read other people’s posts. The people that I have been reading have provided me with insights into a plethora of topics that I might not have otherwise stumbled upon. I thank the blogosphere for that opportunity and I hope [...]

Thinking shift…yet again

There was a great post on “dare to dream” today that struck an interesting cord with me. When we think about learning in schools today the same things come out in the conversation. We hear about managing data and research and making it work for the student easily. We hear about making connections to prior [...]

What it’s all about!!!

It’s all about discipline!

As you can see by my previous post, it has been quite some time since I have last written. That’s not to say that I haven’t been reading, however. In fact, my google reader is constantly overflowing and, some days, it is all that I can do to keep it current. Hence the title of [...]