Dec 29
I used Chat GPT to write a blog post so I thought I’d play around with it some more and try it out to help me lesson plan. I asked Chat GPT some questions about the unit we’re working on in my STEM classes to see what it knew. It surprised me because I didn’t …
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Oct 29
I’ve been thinking about how we are working at leveling the playing field between our haves and have-nots. The pandemic has made extremely clear the advantages that our haves have over our have-nots. A couple of ways our district worked at leveling the playing field was to provide every student a laptop to take home …
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Aug 27
They tell us there is no one silver bullet that will make our job as teachers easier. No one thing that will engage all our students so much that classroom management will no longer be necessary and every kid in our classroom will either pass all their tests or make one to two years of …
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Dec 27
Our district leaders met this past summer to plan what the start of school was going to look like. We surveyed families and based on the results our re-opening team decided that since our county was at low risk with regards to COVID cases we could offer families at least their overall 2nd choice – …
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Apr 20
Week 5 – April 20 to 24:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Recap of Week 4: Monday the 13th was business as usual, which means Bloomz Post for parents for the week at about 9 am, a random event for each of the three classes …
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Apr 14
Week 4 – April 13 to April 17 (back from spring break!):School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Starting the 4th week of our school being closed, really my 3rd week teaching online, I had to extend the deadline for the Hydro Dynamics Project that we …
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Apr 14
Week 3 – March 30 to April 3 (and spring break, April 6 to April 10) School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Chimacum is a small, rural town in Washington state. As rural towns go, it’s small and the nice thing is that it’s close …
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Apr 14
Week 2 – March 23 to 27:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My students’ 2nd week of being out of school was really my first because the week prior was spent working with my district admin and with my fellow teachers helping us all get …
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Apr 14
Week 1 – March 17 to March 20 (because Monday, March 16, was a student day and most of our students showed up).School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 March 16 was our last day with students. I have to say I panicked. I focused on …
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Oct 08
Just recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed once again by Larry Ferlazzo for his amazing BAM Radio Network show, Classroom Q and A. Larry also shared a written commentary I wrote for his EdWeek column that goes with the show on Grading. My commentary focused on gamifying the grading process to make it …
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