Posted in PLC, Professional Development, blogging, education, school issues on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
These are my notes and thoughts on the fly from the gathering.
Began with the 20 min introductions. Why? Hey, the views are great from the lobby!
TPCK and SAMR are the latest stuff from MLTI/DOE I can’t wait to hear what they are about.
Jeff M mentioned that they did look at our NoteShare notebooks from last [...]
Posted in education, school issues, social network on Sep 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh
Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 23, @11:26PM
from the think-of-the-children dept.
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials have enacted a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive for assignments, tests and other work. District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said, the 50 percent minimum [...]
Posted in education, school issues on Sep 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I found a good reminder from Wes Fryer about private and sensitive communications over email and how as teachers we need to be aware of the “leaky” nature of email.
Speed of Creativity
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Posted in education, school issues on Sep 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reading this article from my RSS feed got me thinking about our recess situation at Appleton. I feel that our school has stuck with recess for our middle school students, even with all the other pressures out there in the education day. I see it as a tremendous benefit for the kids but having to [...]
