Never in my life have I put so much time into one 13 minute moment in my life. Last night I presented my first speech of my life. I wanted…Read more
National Honor Society Speech: So What?
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Teachers Save Lives Nomination Form #teacherssavelives
Last week I launched my latest endeavor in which I celebrated and shared my Thank You to a teacher who was so pivotal in my life. I challenged the you…Read more
018: Living on the Edge of Chaos – My First Keynote Speech: So What? (rough draft)
I am seeking some feedback. I doubt many students and parents who will be in the crowd for the National Honor Society induction ceremony reads my blog. I am a…Read more
Students Can Actually Think?
At the beginning of the year we launched a Choose2Matter project with Angela Maiers and Mark Moran. We developed our own #BettPassion projects and a simple search here on the…Read more
What are the shortcomings of project based learning?
I was searching around on Quora as I do for interesting ideas and conversations. One concept I never searched was PBL. So I did and I came across this thread: What…Read more
bow chicka wow HOW: Moving from What to How
Yesterday I delivered my presentation to my staff in an attempt to help them think differently about projects. I offered two HOW suggestions 1. Use the Common Core Appendices to…Read more
DLMOOC Round Table on Academic Mindset
I feel blessed to have had the honor of being a moderator for a panel chat at the Deeper Learning Conference. DLMOOC loaded up the video and I just had…Read more
bow chicka wow HOW
I am gearing up for a presentation to share with my colleagues for an in-service day this week. As I continue to morph this presentation I finally came to the…Read more
12 Innovation Lessons for Education in 2014
Ideas based off Letter from the Editor in Fast Company March 2014. What I am doing here is taking those ideas, changing some of them to apply to education, but…Read more
Schoolwide LEGO World build challenge update!
A few weeks ago we launched the schoolwide LEGO World Build Challenge where teachers could sign their home room to come down and build for 15 minutes. I purchases over…Read more