Rubrics for Self Directed Learning & Engaging Parents
Do you do Rubrics? I feel strongly about rubrics. Initially, they were afterthoughts for me. As I progressed and transformed my practice, rubrics became a necessity for my instruction. I didn’t assign any project without first rolling out a rubric with it. It set my standards for the project...
Read this at your own risk, You may want to change when you’re done
As teachers, we’ve been charged with the task of moving kids to higher level thinking by using questioning strategies that “force” (poor wording choice, I’ll think of something else after I publish this I’m sure) students to think about their thinking. I’ll be real honest here and say we...
Infusion Fun
I’ve been a collector of sorts here lately. Not like a weird bone collector or something sinister, but more a collector of really cool and inventive infused lesson instead! Crazy, huh? I love it, though. I want to show-off some from our finest educators at Castleberry High School. Bitstrips First,...
Stupeflix is Super Easy
I just found a really cool web app I have to share right away! Do ya’ll ever get really excited about web apps like that? Man, I’m pumped about how easy it was to select my premade videos, upload them extremely quick, and then it dumped it into a...
All The Knowledge of the World Available in a Child’s Hand…..Whoa
Before I left the break, I was lucky enough to present to a group of parents for our monthly “Coffee With Counselors”. I gave them a run down of Cyber-bullying, teen social media trends, and a couple of tips and tricks on being aware of their teens’ online presence....