Tweetable - The Extreme LEAPers. Beginner's Guide to Weebly. Hilliard City Schools: Secondary eSchool: Links for Learning. Gr 7-12 students - Did you know you have Gmail in your Google Apps for Education account? What's my email address? Typically, your email address will be- firstname.lastname@hilliardschools.org But, if more than one student in the district has the same first and last name, there may be a number after your last name. The best way to find your email address is to login to Google Apps for Education. You will see your email address on the right side of the browser window.
Please note that inappropriate language is not permitted in email in your Google Apps for Education account. Messages with inappropriate language are automatically routed to the principal. GO TO Google Apps for Education Home Access for students and parents All primary guardians and parents have been assigned a username and password for Home Access. All Aboard! Educational Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents You can also access these great resources from your home computer. INFOhio. Your Words Matter. I had a teacher who once told me I would most likely be a college dropout. Her words mattered. When I told my wife I wanted to write a book and she said without blinking an eye, “Do it.”
I told my daughter the other day how proud I was of her for writing a full sentence! My words mattered. And when I hear back from the teachers and parents that read this blog, I know my words matter. “Learning how to use language effectively will be the most valuable skill you will have to use for the rest of your life.” Woah. Want to get a job? Want to get married? Want to sell something? What Are We Teaching Our Children About Their Words? The problem I see across the board in schools and in the workplace, is that most people rarely think about the power their words have to make a positive impact. DON’T use your words to bully another person (important). or DON’T use contractions (not that important). And we often “de-value” our word power through writing tasks that are meaningless or menial.
E-Portfolio. 4 Reasons People Don’t Blog and Ideas to Help Change Their Mind. A lot of work that I do is not only showing people how to do “stuff”, but more importantly, trying to help them embrace change. One of the most powerful ways to not only change the teaching profession as a whole, but also as individuals, is through the act of blogging. One of my favourite articles on the topic of blogging is from Dean Shareski, which he shares how he believes blogging makes better teachers. Thousands of other blogging educators could echo similar words. In fact, I’ve yet to hear anyone who has stuck with blogging suggest it’s been anything less than essential to their growth and improvement. I’ve no “data” to prove this but I’m willing to bet my golf clubs that teachers who blog are our best teachers. If you look at the promise ofProfessional Learning Communities that our schools have invested thousands, more likely millions to achieve, blogs accomplish much of the same things.
Yet fear of the unknown is a powerful thing. 1. So here’s my plan. 2. 3. 4. I get it. McVey Innovative Learning Center – That’s an ILC student. A phrase we commonly hear from adults when describing a student in Hilliard is, “That’s an ILC student”. Typically this phrase is accompanied by a conversation regarding a student that isn’t the round peg, round hole type. A year and a half ago you could make that statement and nearly 100% of education professionals would go directly to describing a credit recovery student that needed “a last chance to make it”. I always found it so interesting that people would even describe the ILC as the online recovery building. If I am being completely honest the first year or so of hearing this spread a multitude of emotions through me. Anger, frustration, helplessness, and even defensiveness. How dare they paint the ILC with such a broad brushstroke of narrow options.
But, did they know any different? So now, when we hear someone say “that is an ILC student” we can all reply with one of the following. What type of ILC student are you referring to? - The student who has an entrepreneurial spirit? Reflective Teaching Questions: A Challenge For Teachers. Reflective Teaching Questions: A 30-Day Blogging Challenge For Teachers by TeachThought Staff We’ve talked about “reflective teaching” before, and shared ways to be a more reflective teacher as well.
Well, September is Reflective Teacher month at TeachThought, and in celebration some folks from our facebook team have created a blogging challenge for you to take, share with your colleagues, and use as reflective tools for growth. So, beginning September 1st, you’re on the clock. Make it a point to blog every day for 30 days, even if there are days you can only muster a paragraph.
It’s not about the blogging, but the reflection. And the best part? Details Blog for the 30 days of September, 2014, using the prompts below.We’ll share a handful of posts per day, but we can’t share them if you don’t send them to us–@teachthought! Day 1 Write your goals for the school year. Day 2 Write about one piece of technology that you would like to try this year, and why. Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9.