Category Archives: Professional Development

Statement of Objectives and Interest


What are your vocational objectives and how will your matriculation in the _____ University Doctor of Education Program relate to them? All of the career decisions I have made in my ten years in public education have been guided by my desire to affect positive change in the lives of young people.  In my roles [...]

Exhaling at EduCon


Note: The bulk of this was written at nearly 11:30pm on Saturday, 30 January 2010, upon arriving home from EduCon 2.2.  I just wanted to get these thoughts down before I went to bed and lost the feeling I had at the time; “post-production” tweaking was done with the benefit of a clearer head and [...]

NJEA 2009: Teach > Tech


It’s been over a  week since my two-day presenting stint at the New Jersey Education Association‘s annual statewide teacher’s convention in Atlantic City, and I have to say that, my crippling sinus infection notwithstanding, it was an incredible experience. Credit must be given where it’s due: I think the organizers of this year’s High Tech [...]

NJEA Convention – High Tech Hall


This Thursday and Friday, I will be presenting at the New Jersey Education Assocation’s statewide conference in Atlantic City.  To be sharing presentation time with folks like Kevin Jarrett and Lisa Thumann is a bit humbling, and if I can get through the whole thing without spilling anything on myself or tripping over a computer [...]

How I Spent My Summer Vacation


This summer was a lot of things for me and my family, but “relaxing” was not one of them.  With a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old (who’s going on 16) to keep entertained, it felt like the summer was a blur of museum visits, amusement park rides, movies, and trips to my ancestral homeland (the Jersey [...]