As I listen to the news on Hurricane Irene, I’m guessing many teachers will be looking for resources to teach about Irene specifically and hurricanes/cyclones in general. So here is my starting list: NASA’s Hurricane Resources Page – Track Irene’s progress through NASA’s updates and video gallery.   Hurricane Irene: 12 Ways to Track the [...]

With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just a few weeks away, I wanted to share some resources for commemorating an event we cannot forget. From Edutopia’s Suzie Boss (Reinventing Project-Based Learning co-author): How to Help Your Students Observe the 9/11 Anniversary – I really like Suzie Boss’s  thematic arrangement, starting with Build Resilience to Use [...]

NWP colleague Natalie Bernasconi recently shared with me the infographic below. We were both disturbed by one of the statistics cited: In the United States nearly half the teachers come from the lower 1/3 of their college classes. Over a year ago, Larry Ferlazzo challenged the same data, researched its sources, and concluded: “This bottom-third [...]

What the world needs most right now is wonderful questions about things worth reading. Things worth read and rereading that don’t avoid the text but bring kids into a deeper consideration of it.” David Coleman David Coleman?  Although I’ve been visiting the Common Core State Standards site for over a year now, it was just [...]

I try to keep Wednesday evenings free (6:00-7:00 pm) so I can spend an hour with the always amazing group of educators joining EdTechTalk’s  Teachers Teaching Teachers session. With Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim at the helm, the TTT hour is an opportunity to learn about, discuss, and question innovative tools, strategies, and programs for [...]

Lucky me! In the last school year, I received an Advancing Networks Uses Grant (ANU), a wonderful grant that allowed me to showcase how technology is changing classroom practice  in my district. I titled my ANU proposal Teach 21, and promised to document 21 classroom examples that would make visible effective integration of technology across [...]