Monthly Archives September 2011

Blogging the Habits of Mind


This past spring, I ran a workshop at the same conference at which Heidi Hayes Jacobs gave the keynote.  As part of my presenter’s “swag bag”, I received a copy of Dr. Jacobs’ Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, a collection of essays about teaching and learning in the 21st century. One essay [...]

Get Your #Chat On


It was a little over a year ago when I wrote about the weekly Twitter-based chat on special ed issues founded by Deven Black and originally moderated by me, #spedchat. While I can take or leave the real-time chat format on Twitter (it can be maddeningly difficult to keep up with if too many people [...]