This post is actually a comment in the conversation around school change over at Public School Insights – Casting Call for Teachers. It’s pretty much in the same state, maybe an extra sentence or two. I think it helps to clarify what I mean when I say “Teachers are the only real agents of school [...]
But what is real learning? It's learning beyond the test. Learning beyond the classroom.
To help others to make a better world is healing (Harley Wylie)
I just this moment discovered this project through facebook – in one of those ads that usually annoy the crap out of me in the left hand column (they annoy me because a) they are usually about finding an adult friend or signing up for some kind of scammy looking deal; and b) when I [...]
A while ago I created a post in response to recurring themes I was seeing in many blogs around creating change in our schools towards authentic, meaningful learning situations for our students and teachers.
Here is that post.
Today I finally got around to creating a wiki to continue the conversation (thanks to John Brandt for the [...]
Image: Ghetto Curious George by the Frankfurt School made available on flickr by a creative commons license.
(crossposted at leadertalk)
About a week and a half ago, the night before beginning at a new school, I wrote a post called Allowing Curriculum Planning to Remain Curious. I
wrote about how I needed to remain curious about my students [...]
Since yesterday, I have been involved in a conversation on Will Richardson’s post The Future of Teaching.
The first part of this post was originally posted as a comment to The Future of Teaching.
I am getting the idea that we, at least those of us involved in this conversation, are ready to act on new ideas. [...]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk]
I will be returning to the classroom at the end of August after a year as a special education consultant and professional development facilitator. I decided to return for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I miss the energy I pick up from daily contact with students and the next [...]
Image: photo of the St Lawrence River taken by me, available on flickr.
mrsdurff introduced me to Class 2.0 in a recent comment on Understanding the Machine.
I love the idea behind this site, and behind different workshops that places like LEARN in Quebec offer teachers.
How do we negotiate the space between resources on the one [...]
Image: Conversation by thehighschoolchick made available on flickr with a creative commons license.
Lately I have been voraciously reading and learning from different edubloggers. I am seeing my passion for authentic learning for our kids (and myself!) reflected in their posts. Here are just a few of the posts that have turned my crank in the [...]
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