Let Them Eat Fruit
On Wednesday of last week, my sixth grade interdisciplinary team fed our sixth graders pizza for lunch in a mini-celebration of the end of our school year. It's kind of annual tradition around our...
View ArticleWhat Does Leadership on a Professional Learning Team Look Like?
As a full-time teacher and part-time consultant on Professional Learning Community implementation, I'm always asked questions like, "What kinds of things can teachers do to move their learning teams...
View ArticlePresentation Materials: Solution Tree #atplc Institute
Over the next three days, I'll be working alongside the super motivated educators at Solution Tree's PLC Institute in Minneapolis. The goal for most of the participants will be to find ways to polish...
View ArticleTechnology is a Tool, NOT a Learning Outcome.
Last weekend, I whipped up a hand-drawn image on the role that technology should play in teaching and learning spaces. Over the last five days, it's been viewed over 4,000 times on Flickr and...
View ArticleMore on Technology is a Tool, NOT a Learning Outcome
It's been a ton of fun to watch the reaction that people have had to my "Technology is a Tool, NOT a Learning Outcome" image. Most people found it to be incredibly valuable, summarizing their core...
View ArticleThree Fantasy Series Your Middle Schoolers Will Love
For the past several years, my best friend Mike Hutchinson has run a student club at our school called AFFL. Pronounced "AWFUL," AFFL stands for "The Anti-Ferriter Fantasy League." The goal of AFFL is...
View ArticleFive Things Busy Teachers Need to Know About Writing a Book
Back in February, my good friend John Norton interviewed me for Middleweb -- one of the single best resources for middle school teachers that I've ever seen. In the interview, John asked me...
View ArticleHere's Why Competition Doesn't Work in Public Education
If you are (1). interested in public education and (2). living with an Internet connection, you're likely to already know that North Carolina's Republican-led legislature has passed a TON of new...
View ArticleCan YOU Pass this Educational Arithmetic Test?
Felt like being a little creative today, so I whipped up a slide based on teacher spending data found this Horace Mann Teacher Survey from June 2013.
View ArticleCan YOU Pass this Educational Arithmetic Test?
Felt like being a little creative today, so I whipped up a slide based on teacher spending data found this Horace Mann Teacher Survey from June 2013.
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