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Our school gives email accounts to students in grades 6 to 8. The technology coordinator stands ready to give an account to each fifth grade student in the class I help teach. I have said no (beyond emergency H1N1 use). We just finished dealing wi...
I believe Dennis has a point when he criticizes current education practices for shoving the onus for technology onto classroom teachers. More than a few administrators are more tentative about technology and farther behind in adopting tech skills ...
Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a program in conjunction with several independent schools within the route 128 belt to train teachers and earn a master's degree. Teachers-in-training spend a year on the school campus taking cour...
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- At 6:30pm on February 12, 2008,
Mr. P. said…
- David,
Cincinnati Country Day School is exploring the possibility of adding some sort of a study skills course for our sixth graders. What you do with Dr. Mel Levine's The Mind That's Mine curriculum sounds very interesting. I'd love to speak you and get your ideas and advice.
Thanks,
John Polasko
polaskoj@countryday.net
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- School:
- Belmont Day School
- Job title or grade level:
- Grade 5 (homeroom, math, science)
- Website:
- http://www.belmontday.org
- Favorite web sites:
- www.slacker.com
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Bill, Thanks for sharing. How bittersweet life can be. Fred
About 10 years ago, several faculty members at my school were sitting at lunch talking about the fast-approaching Parents' Weekend. "I don't know how parents do it," one teacher commented. "I know I could never have given up one moment with my kid...
This group is for people who are evaluating their databases and a place for communicate about the issues and challenges of managing information within an independent school.
Welcome to the Tablet Computing group. Please join in the discussions below, start a new topic, or post a video that relates to tablets.
Michael Horn discusses the history of the Florida Virtual School with David Colon, Academic Dean at Collegiate School.
We've found time by giving four faculty meetings a year to working on committees--the personalized PD time. And because the teachers are charged up about getting their pet projects done they find time to meet after school on their own. I find it h...
The K12Online Conference 2009 is about to begin! So far this year we have enjoyed 3 LAN parties leading up to the main conference. The LAN parties featured past presenters, their presentations, and chat room hullabaloo. While this was all connect...
Best of luck with your strategic planning. It sounds like you have a well-thought out process planned. Here are a couple of Disrupting Class resources we found useful to share with our faculty:
http://educationnext.org/how-do-we-transform-our-sc...
That's great, Jamie!! Thanks for sharing!
Michael Horn and David Colon discuss the idea of monolithic instruction.
This ISEnet group is for discussing issues and resources specific to lower school.
I have used Fliggo, which can be private or public.
My school, Collegiate School in Richmond Va, has been working with Michael Horn, one of the junior authors on Disrupting Class to help change our school plan from a deliberative strategy to an emergent strategy.
As part of our work, David Colon, ...
I've used Vimeo, which allows videos to be share via password (or left open if you prefer).
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