Jun 15

Another Close

Yesterday, Friday the 14th, was our last day of school. It was a half day of fun for us at the middle school. We did start the day by giving out awards to the top academic kids but those were the only awards (besides honor roll and attendance) that we gave out all year! After …

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Jun 01

Is Variety Better?

Coming up on the last two weeks of school I started to reflect on something I’ve maybe been taking for granted. I’ve noticed that I offer my students variety. Variety in Science instruction (and curriculum to an extent), variety in integrated technology and variety in how students show what they are learning. Lately I’m wondering, …

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May 20

Testing is Over

State testing is over! My 6th graders took a Math and Language Arts test and my 8th graders took a Math, Language Arts, and Science test. The Science test, the subject that I teach, has questions on Earth, Physical and Life Science. Our curriculum, for better or for worse, includes Physical and Environmental Science in …

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Apr 29

Awesome Webinar on Feedback

Here is a Storify recap of tonight’s webinar with Grant Wiggins and Mark Barnes on Feedback hosted by Kristen Swanson (recording can be found here and slides can be found here):

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Apr 15

EA Gen?

I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been working on renewing my National Board Teaching Certification, I’m also applying for the Presidential Award for Science (I mean, why not?), and I’m trying to keep up with a great Games Based Learning MOOC that’s going on. Yeah, basically way more than I can chew since classes …

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Mar 23

Skills to Focus On?

This infographic is helpful in choosing some good skills to help our students gain: Employers Identify Top 5 Job Skills infographic Source So how do we foster these skills in our classrooms?

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Mar 17

Twitter for Educators

Cool video:

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Mar 13

Gamification Alternative to Grading?

One thing that’s really cool about Twitter is that you’re allowed to be nosey. People know that anyone who follows them can read what they’re tweeting. Now that may be obvious to everyone but I tend to by shy even online. I know, it’s weird to me too. It’s way easier for me to lurk …

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Mar 12

Ironman or Batman?

This isn’t Science or Edtech or Edreform but it’s darn cool! I just couldn’t pass it up. Created by HomeownersInsurance.com

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Mar 09

What is the Best Device?

That seems to be a matter of opinion. Personal preference also plays a part in this. It also depends on what you need to accomplish. This is a subject of great debate so I wrote a post on my district’s tech blog, which I am cross posting here: I have discovered in my career that …

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