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Continue reading →: About my personal learning network: Stop being so awesome!
I’m driving my car and I’m looking at homes that still have their Christmas decorations up and it’s almost February! I love you, “People who haven’t taken down your Christmas decorations yet”. And you’re proud of it. You’re not keeping them off at night, trying to evade the judgments of…
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Continue reading →: About a New Year: My “One Word” for 2015Not sure who started it but I’m going to give credit to my good friends, incredible middle school principals, Lisa Meade and Tim Dawkins, for inspiring me to respond to the 2015 “One Word Challenge”. Like Lisa, I’ve never been very good at New Year’s resolutions. I still can’t ballroom…
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Continue reading →: About Bullying: What makes an easy target?
We recently held the third annual Bully Prevention Kickoff at our School. For the second year in a row students, staff and family members walked thousands of miles to demonstrate their commitment to stand up to bullying. It was an incredible event. Check out these photos from the day. I was…
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Continue reading →: About Courage: Why don’t we sing anymore?
Why don’t middle school kids dance more? Some do… but at a middle school dance, many students can be found sitting against the wall. Why don’t more adults sing, draw, paint and do art? Why do adults stop playing sports even though they enjoy doing so? Probably it’s because we…
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Continue reading →: Reflections on EdCamp Long IslandTwo weeks ago was our inaugural EdCamp Long Island… I’ve been enjoying the twitter feed of messages about the day and speaking to people who attended. I cannot possibly express the enormity of awesomeness that was represented by working with the team of people who pulled off this historic event! …
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Continue reading →: About EdCamp: You should definitely go!
I visited a good friend of mine in Boston one weekend when I was in college. His family was so interesting and quirky. At one point on Saturday afternoon some nice folks came to his door and wanted to talk about religion and give them some pamphlets. His grandmother who…
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Continue reading →: About the first week of school: Some highlights and reflectionsOkay, it’s Friday. We are off to a great start to the school year. Just three days in and everyone seems like they never left. I love all the smiles around our school. Some highlights and observations: First of all, our superintendent, Hank Grishman taking the ice bucket challenge at…
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Continue reading →: About a challenging journey: Doctoral Study
Confession – before this morning, I had been ABD for the past three years. For those not familiar with the term, ABD is an acronym for “All But Dissertation”; meaning I had completed all the requirements for a degree of “Doctor of Education: Ed.D” except the dissertation. So today, 232…
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Continue reading →: About technology: It works when it works – Vacation Takeaway Part III
We first visited DisneyWorld 5 years ago. If I remember correctly, we used a physical map to find our way around the parks and carried around little pieces of paper with essential information to get through the day. They now have an app that you can use to set up…
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Continue reading →: About “just right” learning: Vacation takeaways part II
When I was a kid, one of my favorite parts of Storytown was these little houses they had in the different “lands”. In Frontier Town they had a small western town with miniature houses that you could play in. There was a bakeshop, a barbershop, a bank, a courthouse, a…
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