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Find Your Pace
In my first year of high school, I started to run track. I ran the mile and two mile. In my first race, I tried to go out as…
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How Ideas Become Powerful
It’s simple really. Ideas become powerful when they are shared. Ideas like to be shared. Ideas want to be shared. Ideas need to be shared. It’s what gives them…
Educational Haikus
Trevor and I don’t get the opportunity to sit down and create together very often. At a recent conference that we were both attending, we decided to challenge ourselves…
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The Boredom Standard
If you are in education, you know the education landscape has gotten a bit crazy as of late. The demands, the pace, the content, and the assessments have all…
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Creating versus Creativity
Just because a student creates a product doesn’t mean they are exhibiting or developing or practicing creativity. For instance, if a student merely follows the directions and creates a…
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Ending with Choice
This is the second year that I have run a 100% choice art room. One of the unforeseen benefits has been it’s created a much better end to my…
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Measuring Things
I think that one of the side effects of collecting data to ensure students’ academic growth is that educators are constantly under pressure to put things in front of…
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Similarities & Differences
At one time, rap music used to not even be considered music. This was a focus on differences. Lin-Manuel Miranda connected Alexander Hamilton to Hip-Hop artists and created…