Best day, everyday
My Kindergarten teacher asked me if I was interested in taking one of the students around for a project that she is doing with all of the students in her
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The Importance of “School Teachers”
As a school year is winding down, I have been reflecting back while also thinking about moving forward next year. The idea of “School teacher vs. Classroom teacher” keeps coming
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Top Down-Bottom Up?
This morning, it was extremely interesting when I saw the following two links in the Twitter feed, one after another: Educational Change and leadership – bottom up! It’s Always
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Do Something
I had the fantastic opportunity to attend the College of Alberta School Superintendents (CASS) Leadership Academy, this past weekend in Banff, Alberta. Working with representatives from Parkland School Division, we
When Ideas Go Viral
Last June, our school hosted an event called “Identity Day“, which was started by my Assistant Principal, and had our students share some amazing stories from the day. I obviously
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The Ray of Learning
As we are getting closer to the end of the school year, I have been thinking a lot about the continuation of our Eportfolio project. Then I came upon this
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Video That Should Be Viral
I saw this video from David Wees, who passed it on from Karl Fisch, and wanted to share it on my own blog. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jgUcxMezM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Such a short but powerful video.
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Putting “Deep” Into Practice
Recently I wrote a post about ensuring that we use technology to move away from the “neat” aspects but moving towards our students critically thinking about their learning while having
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Where were you when…?
So many times when major news stories break in the world, the question that is always asked later is, “Where were you when….?” Interestingly enough, as I heard about the
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