I spent the better part of my day today observing lessons in a variety of fourth and sixth grade classrooms. While I always enjoy getting into the classrooms (and participating, when I’m allowed!), it’s always a welcome bonus when I learn something new while doing it, either about one of my students, about the subject [...]
Chance are slim to none that you’ve been reading this blog as long as I’ve been writing it (though I’d love to be proven wrong!). With that in mind, I thought I’d kick off October with some reruns a look back at some of my personal favorite posts from the past four-plus years I’ve been [...]
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 [...]
I recently took an online professional development course offered by the Massachussetts School Psychologists Association entitled Ethics 102: The Ethical Practitioner. It provided me with ten hours of NASP-approved PD, plus helped me satisfy my National Certification in School Psychology requirement of three hours of ethics training per three-year renewal cycle (my new cycle just [...]
One of the reasons I like blogging so much is because it helps keep me honest. If I have an idea for a project or practice, I like to write about it in this public space because it makes me feel beholden to you (whoever you are) to see it through. It provides some extra [...]
