Learning and Laptops

My ninth grade Honors kids are working on their Wikified Research papers examining “as a society, what we have learned, what haven’t we lea...

I know we are all familiar with Alfie Kohn’s stance on rubrics . And, I know that before Karl Fisch left to go to Educon without me, we talk...

We invite you to participate in a wonderful learning conversation with our ninth grade honors classes on February 3, 2011. After studying th...

One of the goals I set for myself this year was to be a better communicator with the parents of my all boys’ class . I picked this class si...

A few weeks ago, as my all boys class was presenting their PLN entries , one student presented an interesting reaction regarding what clas...

For the past four years, I have had my classes write their versions of National Public Radio’s “This I Believe ” segment. I was introduced t...

Every week in English Nine Honors , students are given a set of 15 SAT preparatory vocabulary words. Last week’s words were antipathy, eluci...

In an era where we can’t get kids to participate in many activities, why are we cutting kids out of opportunities they want to succeed at? T...

With the suggestion of Mr. Kohn, I set up the classroom early on Monday morning circling all the chairs into the center of the room moving a...

After posting yesterday about my struggles in class, I tweeted out the blog post. A few hours later, a DM from none other than Mr. Kohn app...

About a week ago, Alfie Kohn tweeted a new article “ Schools would be great if it weren’t for the kids ” that he composed in response to a p...

One part teacher values+ one part state standards= one hard to swallow pill Over the past few years, as our school has undergone the transfo...

This past week has been a struggle for me on a number of accounts. However, I am having a growing concern regarding my all boys class- they ...

This week, I asked my class to reflect on how the first three weeks have gone for them and to set some goals for the rest of the semester. T...

As Plato did for Socrates, as my students hope to do for our class, we are embarking on a well worn venture of scribing . Each year, I ask m...

Today was my youngest’s, Max (formerly known as Will- but that is another whole story)- first day to ride the bus home. Max had his special ...

This summer I found out I was going to be teaching another section of Spelling Vocabulary , a class we offer at AHS. Rather than teaching a...

Each year, we are asked to submit a professional growth plan that sets forth a growth objective and goal for us as individual teachers as we...

For the past three years, I have asked my students to participate in my No D Policy. No student can earn a D in my class- this ultimately me...