What are Young Originals? Inspired by Adam Grant’s best-selling Originals: How Non-conformists Move the World, I developed this term to identify the non-conformist students who occupy our classrooms every day. Continue reading The Young Originals: Non-conformists in the classroom
As teachers I feel like we often forget the fact that we are always leaders, whether we want to be or not. We look at administrators, teachers speaking at conferences, teachers who write books, as leaders. Yet, every day we have the opportunity to improve the life of a single child. In a school year, teaching 20-30 students for 180, we need to recognize that the opportunities for us to impact a child’s life are immense. Continue reading Freire was a real superhero
“I feel like genius hour may be more important than any of us think. If we only follow the standard curriculum and don’t explore learn what we want to learn and see who we really are, all we will be are a bunch of standard children and no one wants that.” Continue reading This is what Genius Hour means to students
This winter I heard the phrase, “What is your why?” for the first time. Of course, with most meaningful things, after you hear or see it once, it starts appearing everywhere. Most recently for me, it appeared in George Couros’s book The … Continue reading Truly innovative teaching asks, What is your why?
I am an introvert who has gotten a lot better at being extroverted. But that doesn’t make it easy. I know the feeling of being closed off in a classroom with students all day and when you need help from another teacher, they are in the same position as you, with little time to help. But somewhere out there is an educator waiting to help. My most recent revelation has convinced me to take my twitter game up a notch. Continue reading Why teachers should tweet more? Especially if you’re an introvert
The Lost Teacher 