A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 5, 2016

Whether during a class, meeting, presentation, or workshop it can be at times extremely difficult to give everyone a voice. As I have transitioned to a major role as a presenter, I initially experienced the same struggles listed above. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. This is a great tool to use for a backchannel.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 25, 2011

Last week my school was fortunate to have the NJ School Boards Association (NJSBA) visit to produce a live event called Learn@Lunch: Technology as an Engagement Tool. Yes, I was the Principal at that time, but my perspective and philosophy as to what constituted a 21st Century learning environment was vastly different than what it is today.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

While pushing students to learn outside our classrooms is a step in the right direction, how do we ensure that these experiences lead to deeper learning ? While ensuring rigorous learning experiences is critical, we also must be mindful that we run the risk of schooling students out of their curiosity. Often times great “aha!”

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Fractus Learning

MAY 5, 2015

Many times, staff meetings become housekeeping lists, presentations on topics, and there is little interaction among teachers. I want them to be positive, collaborative learning communities, where ideas are shared and staff walks away energized. The staff meeting focus is now one of instruction, professional learning and sharing.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 12, 2014

I had the pleasure to attend and present at the Midwest Technology Conference in February. I co-presented two workshops this year. link] [link] [link] social media - @METCenews [link] Solution for a teacher Web site, assignment submission, and a dozen other things that we do in a dozen different ways, but all in one place.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are so many ways that kids can creatively show you their learning in a timely and efficient manner, and ways teachers can conduct assessments that take away the testing anxiety that plagues so many kids. Provide and adapt digital tools for assessment that make sense and are appropriate for a particular learning style.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 10, 2017

And he’s spreading what he learns to the broader educator community, hoping what he’s learning from the CS50 experiment spreads beyond Harvard’s walls to K-12 educators working to fire up kids about computer science. At the end of the semester, all CS50 students present their final projects to the community at a fair.

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