Learning and Laptops

The Wonder of Boys: Part 1 My next boy book is The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, mentors, and Educators Can do to Shape Boys into Except...

Raising Cain: Part 1 I started reading Raising Cain as the first book for my all boy series of literature.  Kindlon and Thompson argue thro...

I have been remiss in my blogging. I admit it. I can’t seem to find the time nor place to think about teaching. To take the time to reflect...

Period 5 Winner: Lindsey: Brave New World Period 3 Winner: Aly: Brave New World Period 5 Nominees: Scott: Cat's Cradle Monic...

Check out our photos of the fabulous conversation with Dan Pink. Also, here are the links to the archived Ustream presentation (http://ww...

The Toronto Public Schools' School Board and teachers came to visit Littleton Public Schools in early April to see examples of exemplar...

On Saturday night, Littleton Public Schools held its annual Spirit of Littleton Dinner which benefits the LPS School Foundation.  Our ki...

My all boys' class has been reading Mark Haddon's Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime .  We also started our essential ques...

About a week ago, our fearless TCAP leader Kevin Kolassa, asked if I would give a speech to the school inspiring the students to do well o...

One of the best agreements we have come to in our 9th grade PLC  is asking fellow 9th grade teachers to come into our 9th grade classes and ...

For the past few years with our study of The Odyssey and Into the Wild , I have had my students use Google Earth to trace their own person...

Today, we had another intellectual learning adventure. Cory Doctorow , author of Little Brother , talked one on one with our 9th grade Ho...

Serendipity:  ser·en·dip·i·ty /ˌserənˈdipitē/ Noun: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial...

My kids decided they needed to create an award in recognition of the best banned book movie trailer for our Banned Book assignment .  So, th...

About a month ago, Karl Fisch sent along a tweet from a librarian in Grand Junction, Becky Johnson .  Becky was creating QR codes to ...