A quick Google search on Accelerated Reader (AR) will lead to all sorts of varied opinions. The most vociferous I find are the haters, very vitriolic in their critiques of the program. What is sorely lacking from many of... Continue Reading →
The idea for this post came to me as I was interviewing a potential candidate to join our grade 2 team for the 2016/2017 school year. The question asked was something along the lines of "talk about differentiation" in your... Continue Reading →
Problem: About this time of year many students have run through the gamut of the classroom library and are saying something along the lines of "there isn't anything interesting for me to read!" In years past my quick-fix solution was... Continue Reading →
There it is folks: POBox 3368, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My POBox. Sort of. Stoically square and unchanged for the past 50 years, with a single key as the keeper of secrets and memories. It hasn't always been my POBox of... Continue Reading →
Last week I wrote this blog post on 5 iPad apps for classroom creativity and the need for tech tools to foster creativity in my classroom. This week I am focusing on apps that I use in my classroom to... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I wrote this blog post on 5 iPad apps for classroom productivity and the need for tech tools to add value in my classroom. This week I am focusing on apps that I use in my... Continue Reading →
A new calendar beginning is always a good time for me to take stock of what I did in the first half of the academic year and to set new “goals/aspirations/resolutions” for amping up learning in the second half of... Continue Reading →
Let's take a picture walk through African history... German Southwest Africa, Belgian Kongo, or Rhodesia ring a bell? Sixty years later these country names are looking a little more familiar perhaps. And here we are today. Pop quiz time ...... Continue Reading →
From our AirBnb apartment in L'Eixample district we were withing a five minute walk to the Verdaguer metro station if need be, but we preferred to meander. Barcelona is a city to get lost in, a city to explore on... Continue Reading →
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