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

I guess it took a very innocuous conversation with fellow STAR Discovery Educator Rachel Yurk to snap me out of a fun I’ve been in. It’s been about a good month since I’ve posted. Heck, I didn’t even post my final comments about FETC. I’ve put myself on a self imposed hiatus. I’ve been negative. [...]

This past week Florida teachers, and for the first time that I’ve really noticed, teachers from around the world, converged on Orlando for the annual FETC Conference. I’m pleasantly pleased about the experience this year, as always. I had the GREAT honor of meeting Jeff Corwin in person. He was the keynote speaker [...]

This is it, my first post of the New Year, 2008. Looking back at the past year, I can say it’s been a WHIRLWIND of a year. I started 2007 as a classroom teacher. It was about this time last year that I interviewed for the Technology Specialist position that I’m currently holding down. It [...]

For those of you that follow my Twitter feed (Tom_Turner) you will have noticed some very disheartening comments being passed along. I understand that my current position is a combination technology integration specialist and network/hardware administrator. Unfortunately for me, more time is spent working on the hardware/network infrastructure of my job description. Is it a [...]

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Not a normal title for a post that I would write now is it. It’s Black Friday, and a Happy Belated Thanksgiving to each and every one of you. I’ve alot to be thankful for this year, one of them being the [...]

I’m sitting here in my hotel room waiting for me to get tired enough to want to fall asleep. Tomorrow should be a pretty big day. Wife and kids take their first cruise. We’re off to the Bahamas, I’m sure I’ve said that once or twice. I know my colleagues at school were ready for [...]