So this is my third and final post wrapping up my thoughts from ISTE19. See this post for my take half way through… and this post for my notes from my sessions I attended. What I loved: ISTE made some improvements after some of the problems we faced at ISTE18 in Chicago. The staggered schedule… Read More Beyond the sessions: Lessons at #ISTE19

I wanted to come up with a way to share my learning from the conference… to summarize the notes and takeaways I gained over the last 4 days. So I’m aiming for chronological notes and I know this will be longer than most posts here. Please take what you need! I tweeted A LOT during… Read More My #ISTE19 Learning

It’s Monday evening and we are at the mid point of the 2019 ISTE conference (International Society for Technology in Education). There are tens of thousands of educators and vendors in Philadelphia for this annual conference that brings together educators, coaches, school and division leaders from around the world. As in years past, my favorite… Read More #ISTE19 – Reflection after 2 days of learning

Over the last week I’ve had the pleasure of helping schools with their laptop collections. School tech teams (Tech Coach and Technology Specialists) collaborate to recruit volunteers, plan and organize and execute amazing plans that ensure they collect laptops from up to 2800 students in just a day or two! What an undertaking! This allows… Read More #FCPSOn Laptop Collection

Before I get into what I read this month, I just want to state how this goal has really kept me focused. In January I set an intention of examining the books I read and considering whether I’m learning from books, articles, podcasts and other media created by diverse authors. I have to say that… Read More What I’ve Read & Learned: May 2019

Is it a real thing we’re striving for or is it another way to shift more work to teachers?  Is “building capacity” a positive or negative? We often hear this in trainings or in meetings, usually it comes just before someone tells us something new that we are going to be responsible for.  I’m struggling… Read More Building Capacity?

Books and Articles: Young Adult Fiction:  Over spring break I set the professional reading aside and read young adult fiction.  It was glorious!  The three books I read were part of my effort to read diverse authors with characters who have experiences that aren’t like mine.  These books were incredible. I was moved to tears… Read More What I’ve Read and Learned: April 2019

This is a guest post from Kelly Cosgrove. She recently spent the day in the life of a high schooler and I saw her tweets during the day… and was completely intrigued! She was kind enough to share her thoughts here for all of us to learn from. If you want to find out more… Read More Shadow A Student Reflections

I recently graduated from Western Governors University with a Masters of Science in Educational Leadership. My research, and a HUGE personal interest of mine, was centered on Personalized Professional Learning. While my big research question and the action research I conducted focused on small changes with a group of teachers that I’ve blogged about before,… Read More Personalized Professional Learning: Literature Review

Two nights ago this tweet from Sarah Jacobs crossed my timeline: First. WOW!! This is absolutely incredible. I was so moved by Sarah’s art that I started digging into this. How in the world did she do this? Could I try it? So next I found a few more tweets that were helpful and discovered… Read More Using Google Draw to Create Beautiful Mosaics