Work Hard, Be Courageous, Celebrate Growth

Our job as educators can be challenging, exhausting, and exhilarating (all in the same moment sometimes). This week was all of these things...

Over a decade has passed in the 21st  Century and technology continues to advance at an unpredictable rate. Conversations are occurring ever...

Reading, Writing, Reflecting, Connecting, Researching, Texting, Blogging, Tweeting, Learning, Growing and 5 hours until I have to be any...

Reflection is a process I have only lately come to appreciate.   I know they say don’t live in the past, but to me that is funny since throu...

Thursday was a VERY long day for me and Ann.   To kick things off we attended our weekly staff meeting (which is a quick shot of PD in the a...

Today I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a workshop called Fierce Conversations with Deli Moussavi-Bock.  It was incredibly inspirin...

The mantra "Just ask the kids!" is a favorite of our instructional coach.  She inspired Ann and I with these words many times last...

In reading Chapter 1 of 21st  Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn , Ann and I were introduced to Gardner’s 5 Minds for the Future ...

Well, here it is my first post of the new year! Better make it a good one... :)

Multiage classrooms are not new in the world of education; they have existed from way back into the one room schoolhouse days and open conce...