Tag: 21st Century Learning

• Weekly Bookmarks from @mccoyderek

  There are some of the impactful articles I’ve tweeted and saved to to my Diigo account. Hopefully these reshares will be of benefit to you and your practice. The Challenging Teacher Leader Some thinking points from @curriculum_blog on the value-add of teachers who challenge or question what’s put in front of them. 10 Tips For…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/16/2014

  Resources

  21st Century Learning, Infographic, Metacognition, professional development, Reading, Twitter

• Prepping our Middle Schoolers for a Blended Experience

  Several weeks ago, we began some strategic planning to address a large class-number problem we knew we would be having in our upcoming second semester. The short description of our solution is that we would create a blended learning experience, using local resources, for these students. The beauty of our solution is that we would…

  Derek L. McCoy

  01/26/2014

  blended learning, collaborate, Edmodo, Google, Innovative Leadership, school leadership

  21st Century Learning, Collaborate, Google, GoogleDrive, leadership

• School Leadership 3.0: Make Your Tools Mobile

  This is a picture of my office desk. I’ve also made it the background for my Twitter profile. I was inspired to take this picture after a teacher visited my office and she immediately remarked about these tools that cluttered about my desk [this picture doesn’t reflect my typical work organization]. She questioned if it…

  Derek L. McCoy

  06/21/2013

  change, pln, school leadership

  21st Century Learning, leadership, School administration, school leadership 3.0, web tools

• Your Toolbox

  I had a great, reaffirming conversation with another administrator in my school district @CumberlandCoSch.  At a  scheduling workshop for secondary schools, I met up with Dan Krumanocker and Troy Lindsey, principal and assistant principal of Douglas Byrd High School. A couple of months ago, I helped Dan [@DanielJK68] with a Twitter tutorial, basically some quick…

  Derek L. McCoy

  04/14/2013

  pln, school leadership

  2.0 Tools, 21st Century Learning, Collaborate, leadership, learning, School Leadership, Social media

• Middle School Schedule [5]: Intervention and Operations

     The transition next year is about  bettering how we teach and how students learn, those are first and foremost. Our discussions in SIT and leadership focus on how this move will significantly affect those areas and change what we do. One opportunity created from this move is our ability to manipulate our schedule  and…

  Derek L. McCoy

  03/03/2013

  change, collaborate, school administration, school leadership, student centered

  21st Century Learning, Change, curriculum, decision making, school schedule

• Mission POSSIBLE: Our iPad Planning Team

  The Mission: Recruit several highly trained and motivated professionals for a secret iPad mission [not really top secret, in fact no secret at all] The Team: 2 Instructional Coaches, 2 first year Science and Social Studies teachers and an veteran math teacher. The Objective: To search and gather iPad apps and resources and plan for…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/24/2013

  ‘unit planning’, apps, collaborate, teachers

  21st Century Learning, apps, Collaborate, curriculum, digital learning, education, learning, planning, professional development