Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages Through Our Student’s Eyes

Oh the sounds of summer…The crack of the bat (or ping if you’re talking about Little League). The pop of a ball being caught in the pocket of a leathery glove. The swishing sound of feet gliding across orange clay. These are sounds I grew up with for 15 years. My true formative [...]

When  looking at our goal in education, what is it that we are there to do? Let’s take a look at my school district’s mission statement: “To ensure rigorous, relevant learning experiences that result in high achievement for our students.” To what point is learning rigorous and relevant? By whose standards? The  FDOE, State [...]

Yesterday I looked at the first part of play, that being structured. Today I will tackle the second form of play, unstructured. There are several avenues that children can partake in unstructured play. The conventional method is through recess. That time where teachers usually take their children outside and allow their students to [...]

Cross posted on the Florida DEN Blog, as well as Danielle Abernethy’s tie4teachers blog.
Received word from Darlene Wolfe here in the Orange County, FL area of an event that might be beneficial to some of you. If you are interested please read further on below the images.

Educators, guidance counselors and administrators may register on line [...]

Thank goodness I “GET” Twitter. Thank goodness I have a great group of people that I follow and vice versa in Twitter. CoolCatTeacher, aka Vicki Davis, shared this tweet earlier tonight. It had two of my favorite words in it: gaming and education….and not in any particular order of fondness mind you. There is a [...]

Ok….I will admit it… I had my apprehensions about Second Life from Day 1. Saying things like…”there’s no way this will work” and I think the word “silly” came out of my mouth at some point.
No more…I think I can get used to the navigation pretty quickly. In a matter of 10 minutes I had [...]