Learning and Laptops

Last year, Lauren Gaffney gave me an assignment she had created to connect students with some of the aphorisms that Wilde uses in his novel...

Friday was the last of our fishbowls on Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind with emphasis on the chapter of "Meaning". We had a pl...

Such a hard hitting title of my blog post must mean that I have something important to say. Sadly, I am feeling I don't. Reflecting on t...

Empathic or Empathetic First of all, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW! On Thursday, I had one of the best experiences in my educational career while I wat...

This last week we focused our fishbowl discussions on the “Symphony” chapter of Daniel Pink’s AWNM . We had some very good, in-depth di...

My kids spent this past week focused on "Story" from A Whole New Mind . It was a big week for us all coming off a pretty good star...

We are under way here at Camp Smith regarding our pursuits of learning what it means to use a whole new mind . Maura and I spent the first w...

Last week, teachers of ninth grade and tenth grade students were given in their mail boxes a highlighted sheet of their students who are par...

I was sitting in class the other day and had what I like to think of as a Ah-ha moment- or environmentally conscious moment. It was nothing...

I want you to take some time and really reflect on our use of Personal Learning Networks. Think about the following questions and compose a...

As previously posted , I changed the way I did conferences this semester. Instead of concentrating on my students' progress via their g...

My seniors created their own semester long project constructing their own definition of a hero through studying the works of Oedipus Rex (...

I am one of those teachers that usually walks towards conferences dreading the conversation with parents because of the fear that one of the...

I have always been fascinated with the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. I know it sounds dorky but here is a teacher, John Scopes, who chose wi...

Being an honors student all my life, I have gotten used to discussing, and I have loved it since my very first guided discussion in fourth g...

Anna K. Josh TS. Brandon H. Alex E. Lauren E. Alena V. Sean B. Carter W. Carter W. 2 Joey W. Annie S. Berek M. Kelly S. Angelica O. Lauren E...

Last Friday, I had our first group of students present on their personal learning network . I used this rubric to evaluate their presentatio...

So today, I tried something new. I know, me? I created a new blog for my Advanced Placement Chemistry Lab students. I had one group voluntee...

During my first few years at AHS , Maura Moritz and I developed an assignment where we had our freshmen complete personal learning journeys ...

Google is taking over our senior essays! Michele Davis , Lauren Gaffney , and I were interested in approaching our senior college essay uni...