For this week’s blog, head over to the WVCTE website to read about why I and other educators choose to teach! Comment on the WVCTE blog, this one, or tag me on Twitter @teachtwdchange and share your #WhyITeach with us! <3
Using Google Classroom
If you are looking for a free, easy, user-friendly learning management system for your classroom, look no further than Google Classroom. As Google explains it, “Classroom is a free web service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google Account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and outside of schools.” Classroom …
Dangerous Rhetoric: Confronting Hate in the Classroom
I had planned on writing a very different sort of blog post this week, but after what occurred in my classroom recently, I feel obligated to address it. Not even obligated, really, but compelled. Because the words a few of my students spoke are still echoing like hammer-fall in my mind, so unsettling they were. …
Self Pages: Making Students a Part of the Curriculum
Hello, everyone! Looking for ways to incorporate your students themselves into the curriculum of your classroom? Head over to WVCTE this week to read my blog on Self Pages and check out some more exquisite examples of my students’ work! I’ll be back on here with a new post the third Wednesday of September (19th)!
Exciting News!!!
Attending the #WVCTE conference back in April, I was incredibly fortunate enough to connect with some wonderfully supportive and inspiring educators. These are folks that are dedicated to lifting up fellow teachers and making real change in the mountain state. I am honored and thrilled to say that they have invited me to join their …
Wrapping Up Research and Summer
As I mentioned in my last post (ages ago), I’ve kept myself crazy busy this summer, BUT it’s all paying off. I’m wrapping up my Action Research course/project, which I’ll talk about more below, and I’m in the thick of semester planning. In addition to all that, I’m working on getting a short story …
A Busy Summer
I know the past couple of months work on my website has been fairly scarce, but I assure you there has been plenty going on behind the scenes. I am working toward the end of a second Master’s, this one in Educational and Instructional Leadership, and I’ve loaded myself down with three courses (and will …
Action Research: Continuing the Discussion of Student Accountability
To my chagrin, it’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, but between research, courses, and the end of the semester (not to mention wrangling a four-year-old), the last two weeks have raced by. In my last post, I discussed the topic of student accountability and the problems with establishing and enforcing it. …
Student Accountability: How Do You Do It?!
Alright, folks, let’s roll up our sleeves and put our heads together for a bit, because I need some collective brainstorming. The topic of the day: missing work. I’ll be engaging in some action research over the next several months about student accountability systems. This is a prevalent issue in our high school, and it’s …