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Getting Out Early
Have you ever truly enjoyed something that you were doing? It could have been watching TV… or a movie… or maybe attending a concert… or even reading a…
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Thoughts from #TCT16
This weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Tomorrow's Classrooms Today conference hosted by the guys at Evolving Educators. I had a chance to catch up with some…
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Ideas for Reflecting on This Year & Improving Next Year
How can you reflect, reinvent, and improve for next year? Try these 6 strategies found here. Click here for the #4OCF reading list! Rich (@RACzyz)
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The Gratitude Challenge
I had the fortuitous opportunity to stumble across a book last year called The Zen Teacher. The book is written by California high school English teacher Dan Tricarico, and focuses…
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In Case of a Fog Delay
Friday night, I took my children to a baseball game. It was a beautiful night for a game. Warm. Calm. Clear. 70 degrees, with a nice, cool breeze coming…
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PD Checklists
If professional development is focused more on the how than the why than it’s very likely that checking off the checklist that outlines the how will be seen by…
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A Chorus of Can’t and Won’t
What are our students capable of? I would argue that we will never know unless we try. I used to work with a colleague who taught in a…
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Point at the Process
When a student is not doing his work teachers, generally speaking, say one of two things. They will say to themselves, “He’s not doing his work!” or “This…
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Questions We Should Be Asking Students
For many years, we have asked students small questions. Detail questions. Fact questions. Who? What? Where? When? We must ask big questions of students. Some of our questions…
