Learning and Laptops

Throughout this semester in my English Nine class , we are spending time exploring the question of what matters to each character we read ab...

Through our study of acts 2-3 of Macbeth , the kids were put into groups looking at the use of one of the following words: blood , hand, man...

In my new grad school class called Technology and Learning , Gary Stager assigned us, his students, the task of composing a piece of music. ...

So, here we are. Another school year beginning at AHS as well as a new endeavor beginning for me outside of AHS, I am a grad student at the ...

Last year, Lauren and I were talking about doing something different with chapter 3 of Brave New World in order to help the kids understa...

I am in a funk. I know I have done a lot this year with implementing constructivist philosophy in my classrooms, trying to more seamlessly...

During our reading and study of George Orwell’s 1984 , Maura and I challenged our students with teaching one another the novel rather than u...

During past poetry units, I have had students write their own poetry on a variety of subjects and then compile all of the poems together at ...

In the astronomy class that I am a part of, as the teacher, we are ending our study of how astronomers classify galaxies. We have covered th...

National Geographic contacted Karl Fisch and I sometime ago about participating in a pilot program they were trying to get underway called L...

The big day came and went. Karl, Maura and I are still living. All is good... Reflecting back to our video conference with Daniel Pink, I a...

Two years ago, at NECC 2006 in San Diego, CA, I watched Kathy Schrock deliver an address about the use of PSAs in classrooms. I was really i...

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...