Summer PD. #ohedchat summer schedule. Taming the Paper Beast: Time Saving Techniques for Essay Grading. 25 May.
Tech and apps. What’s Right With Education. Earlier this week, I tweeted that we should focus more on what is good in education instead of what is wrong with education.
Little did I know when I sent that tweet that I would be challenged to write a blog post on my thoughts. But it is this exact challenge that is central to what is good in education. We all know teachers who come to school every day to challenge and inspire students. They put aside the politics, the testing, the outside pressures, and choose to challenge and inspire students to become lifelong learners. Teach Like a PIRATE Day Leads to Treasure! This is a quick follow-up to my last blog about Teach Like a PIRATE Day at Utica Junior High School in Ohio.
A number of people have emailed me to ask how it went and several have expressed an interest in conducting a similar day at their own school. When you are willing to step out on the edge and try something innovative and risky, you also have to be willing to deal with the consequences of failure. The other side of that same coin, however, is that you might experience a brush with greatness. In this case, it was the latter!! Summer Book Study – Teach Like a Pirate #tlap – Begins 6/17. Summer has begun!
This is a great opportunity to reflect on the past year and to learn some new skills for next school year. We will be starting a weekly book study of Dave Burgess’, Teach Like a Pirate on 6/17 at 8pm CST. Burgess teaches cutting-edge strategies for skyrocketing creativity so that teachers will be able to design lessons to draw students into their content like a magnet. Readers will leave with the ability to create a classroom experience that will have students knocking down the doors to get in. The book will have your mind racing with ideas that you can bring into your classroom immediately. This 5 week session will be lead by the amazing @paulsolarz.
We will meet on Twitter Monday evenings at 8pm CST, starting 6/17. The book can be purchased at Amazon (electronic or paperback) Please RT and invite as many people as you want. We will use hashtag #tlap during our discussions. Weekly Readings (Tentative Schedule): Educators drive conference content in EdCamp Cleveland at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School. Tristan Carrier intervention specialist Cleveland Heights-University Schools discusses individualized learning with fellow educators.
Brecksville-Broadview Heights City School District Superintendent Scot Prebles joined in the discussion as well. The only thing missing from the educational conference at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School were the moderators. More than 80 teachers and administrators from Northeast Ohio and beyond drove the day's content during EdCamp Cleveland June 14.
Through smartphones, tablets and laptops, participants adjusted the schedule to reflect their interests early in the day, and then took part in informal conversations about these topics during five hour-long sessions. Curriculum Leadership. I’m taking several (4) courses this summer as I begin working on my PhD in (you guessed it!)
Curriculum and instruction at Kent State. One of these courses hasn’t even started yet, and I’m already thinking about all the things I did wrong this year (granted, it was my first in curriculum and I’ll equate it to the first year of teaching when you’re really just stumbling along!) ; my thinking,my understanding of my role, my outlook and vision have already shifted. From the conception of this blog, I have been a standards-managing machine. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Twitter Book Study - Teach Like a Pirate.
A Highlight and Note by Kelly from Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator. Amazon Kindle: Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator. A Highlight and Note by Kelly from Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator. The Value of Social Capital. When I think about the Literacy in Learning Exchange, my thoughts often drift to Carrie Leana’s research around professional networks and student achievement.
I'm a big fan of her 2011 article The Missing Link in School Reform, in which she says, In trying to improve American public schools, educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations that strengthen skills, competence, and a school's overall social capital. Where current rhetoric around reform tends to focus on the measure of individual teacher knowledge and expertise (a.k.a. human capital), it’s the measure of professional collaboration and networking (social capital), that requires as much--and maybe more--attention to truly make a difference. Leana puts the researcher-spin on what I was saying last week.
As I said last week, this list is not comprehensive. Filling in Thought Holes: An Invaluable Social and Emotional Learning Lesson. Image credit: iStockphoto "I didn’t get invited to Craig's party . . .
I'm such a loser. " "I missed the bus . . . nothing ever goes my way. " "My math teacher wants to see me . . . I must be in trouble. " These are the thoughts of a high school student named Jeremy. Although all kids blow things out of proportion or jump to conclusions at times, distorting reality is not innocuous. To This Day Project.