Professional Learning

Celebrating Our Strengths to Support Others

I like to think that I subscribe to the humble-teacher way of thinking. I did not get into education for recognition or to tell people...

Student & Teacher Boredom: What can we do?

We have all read statistics on the decline of student engagement between kindergarten and graduation. I recently read the article Bored...

Stop Apologizing for Not Knowing

I have always been interested in tech, and I’ve always been willing to show what I know even before I was a technology integrator....

Supporting Instruction: How is Tech Integration Different?

I’ve often said that technology instructional support is different than any other content area support. I learned these lessons in my...

Sounds Good in Theory…

A friend of mine recently told me that a lot of what I say sounds good “in theory”. When I was a classroom teacher, I often read the...

How Do We Change Teachers’ Perceptions of PD?

Last school year, I came up with the idea of creating a Google Apps for Education “Track”. Instead of teachers attending one hour...

Just Keep Swimming or Create Real Change?

Last night, I was participating in one of my very favorite Twitter chats: #PersonalizedPD (Tuesdays, 8pm CST). Question seven was...

How Do We Move Toward a More Personalized PD Experience?

I love my job. Seriously. One of my favorite components of being a Technology Integrator is the professional development that I am able...

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