Viewing Art and Reading

Viewing Art and Reading

  A huge struggle for teachers at the beginning of every year is to get students out of the gates and engaged in authentic, meaningful work. Between establishing classroom routines,…
Find Your Pace

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…
50 Words

50 Words

  Author, Stephen King writes 2000 words per day. Author, Kate DiCamillo writes two pages per day.   Author, Neil Gaiman wrote his book Coraline over several years sometimes writing…
How Ideas Become Powerful

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…
Joy is an Intervention

Joy is an Intervention

  #4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don't worry, we'll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. Trevor is up  this week with…
Time to Tinker

Time to Tinker

  #4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don't worry, we'll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. Trevor is up  this week with…
Moods

Moods

  #4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don't worry, we'll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. Trevor is up  this week with…
The First Step

The First Step

  #4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don't worry, we'll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. Trevor is up  this week with…
Bad Work

Bad Work

  #4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don't worry, we'll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. Trevor is up  this week with…
Educational Haikus

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…