It just so happens that I’m not traveling this weekend or planning for an upcoming PD, so I was able to lay low with my family and just BE. That looked like a lazy morning, a Costco run, and a wishful afternoon nap for Rachel that turned into a chatty Read more…
I have loved capturing my most recent professional learning with sketchnotes inside of the Procreate iOS app on my iPad Pro. #ISTE17, #BadgeSummit, and #CAGTI17 were powerful global events that sparked my curiosities in new ways and inspired my creativity. As I have shared my sketchnotes on social media, people have Read more…
Student engagement is an essential quality of any learning environment in 2015. Students are entering both physical and virtual learning spaces with experience as gamers, social networkers, designers, collaborators, questioners, and researchers. What if instructors took those skills and created regular learning opportunities that called upon those traits as academic Read more…
As we settle into another school year and begin building our plans, units, and sequences, I feel like this is an opportune time to visit the notion of valuing the learning process equally (or more so) than the end product. As a classroom teacher, I often struggled with assessing the Read more…