Category: teachers
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Embracing the Opportunity: Making Learning More Personal
Earlier this week, I watched a news report about a mother and her concerns that her autistic son was not getting the support he needed during this time of stay at home learning. She was very specific about her concerns of the time needed to complete assignments, aligning her son’s work with teacher expectations and…
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A New Opportunity – Walk-Thrus in Our Digital Spaces
I’m so happy to see all the posts on social media from principals who are joining classroom discussions between teachers and their classes. It’s heartening to see that this crisis isn’t keeping school leaders from carrying out what I think is one of the true joys of school administration and that is classroom walk thrus…
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Signs You Need a Revolution!
Education is like most professions, full of good people with good intentions and strong desires to be productive and effective. For most professionals, this means finding things that work and ways to replicate success. After all, we all want to be successful and enjoy that feeling over and over. But what does success look like?…
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Upcoming Virtual Learning Day
Last month, I proudly posted that our Board of Education approved West Rowan Middle to pilot Virtual Learning on Inclement Weather days [here – Teach from Home]. Our B.O.E. created an option for teachers to work at home on snow days by making them optional teacher workdays. We extended that thinking and proposed, and they approved,…
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Knowledge vs Intelligence: A Discussion for Digital Learning Age
I came across this article some weeks ago – Does knowledge matter in the age of Google? http://buff.ly/2brmg2N. Heads up, the first couple of sentences may be slightly bothersome to some but bear through it as it gets to the heart of the discussion – how we as a society, particularly our growing millenial workforce, view…
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Sharing GoogleForms Observations and Teacher Feedback
Several weeks ago, the principals in our cluster got together and did an instructional walk thru in my building. This is the second one we’ve done in our district, the first at our cluster high school. This great talk inspired me to offer my school as the next walk thru site. I’ve always invited…
Derek L. McCoy 