Even though there is still snow on the ground, I’m really excited to be getting calls from teachers and parents and kids who are interested in participating in the WNY Young Writers’ Studio this summer. Registration is ALWAYS open, and new members can join our community at any time.
Fellows spend a week together in the summer exploring what it means [...]
The fellows of my learning community have been revisiting our commitment to disseminating the expertise that we share and cultivate within our group. This week, conversations have begun around the purpose of publication, the process itself, and whether or not the work that is shared within blog posts and in other online venues can be [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about this post lately. It’s an important one. Go read it.
It makes me think about the not-so healthy level of competition that sometimes exists between people. It astounds me that so many people can’t appreciate this simple truth: there is a lot of work to be done in this field. There [...]
A while back, several local educators on Twitter began thinking about organizing a regional teachmeet. This happened in a pretty organic way. I received a message from Gene Gordon, asking if anyone in my network would be interested in getting together in this way. I asked a handful of my local colleagues and friends. They said yes. [...]
I’m finding that one of the more dramatic shifts that takes place when learning communities come together is around purpose. I’m not just referring to the work of professional learning communities that are populated by educators. I’m also referring to the work of the learning communities that are populated by the students in our classrooms [...]
It used to be that I spent Sunday mornings with a cup of tea and the newspaper. Now, I’m typically catching up with the posts that are in my reader and enjoying leisurely conversations online around all matter of things. Yesterday, a number of people were tweeting and blogging about grades, grading, and report cards. Then I [...]
In recent weeks, it seems as though thousands of educators have drunk the Twitter Tang, because suddenly, I am finding it hard NOT to follow more and more people there. Take a peek at my Twitter Mosaic:
Get your twitter mosaic here.
As new users join and the opportunities for me to learn from them grow, I’m trying to [...]
I work with many teachers whose students do not have access to computers outside of the classroom.
I work with some whose students do not have access to computers inside of the classroom.
And I know that at least ONE school in the area just received it’s first shipment of desktop computers LAST YEAR. Teachers in this [...]
Teachers ask for alternatives to traditional book reporting because they know that if there is anything worse than writing and reading a four paragraph text summary to a classroom full of your peers, it would be assuming the position of audience member AND evaluator. I know that there are more than a few WNY teachers [...]
Six-Word Memoir book preview from SMITHmag on Vimeo.
My six words?
Could work well for book-reporting!