Jul 08
Ever since I heard about 20% Time projects, Genius Hour, and Passion Projects I wanted to provide those opportunities to my students. The idea behind giving students class time to work on topics that truly interest them aligns with my views of education and schooling. While I do believe that kids should be exposed to …
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Jul 08
This past school year I implemented a 20% Time/Genius Hour year-long project with my 8th graders. I’ll be sharing my reflections in a later post but for now I need to share three amazing presentations that came from the project. Students worked on their projects every Friday and their one requirement was to share the …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2019/07/08/a-students-history-of-animation/
Jul 08
This past school year I implemented a 20% Time/Genius Hour year-long project with my 8th graders. I’ll be sharing my reflections in a later post but for now I need to share three amazing presentations that came from the project. Students worked on their projects every Friday and their one requirement was to share the …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2019/07/08/a-student-in-drag/
Jul 08
This past school year I implemented a 20% Time/Genius Hour year-long project with my 8th graders. I’ll be sharing my reflections in a later post but for now I need to share three amazing presentations that came from the project. Students worked on their projects every Friday and their one requirement was to share the …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2019/07/08/a-students-fbi-dream/
May 31
Yesterday I wrote a post about partnerships especially as they apply to projects teachers are creating for their students. Having a local partner, such as the North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC), work with my classes has helped make my Environmental Stewardship Project better than I could have made it alone, and has made the project …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2018/05/31/getting-even-more-money/
Apr 19
I was so happy to be asked by Larry Ferlazzo to be his Q and A BAM Radio show again! This time we tackled the topic of how to end a school year! I got to be on the show with Pernille Ripp, a teacher I’ve been learning from for years on Twitter and on …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2017/04/19/how-to-end-the-school-year-strong/
Jun 06
I’m re-publishing this post here because I have some of my best grant examples for people to see linked below. And go here to see my advice on Getting Even More Money. I have learned the benefits of grant writing. In my 31 year career, I have gotten grants for 26 of those 31 years. …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/06/06/sample-grant-proposals-reboot/
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