Field of Dreams: Interview questions to help you find Great EDU Leaders
Hi everyone. This is going to be my shortest post ever and yet I hope it becomes a valued resource. I’m going to keep a list of interview questions that […]
The Great Escape: How to tunnel your way out of HS and into college
High school can be a prison-of-war like experience for many.You’re stuck in it for a specific time, you don’t get to choose your prison camp leaders (teachers), you don’t get […]
MST3K: Learning from Bad Teacher Theatre
Last week I tried to be a bad teacher. Now I’ve been a bad teacher before, so it’s not a stretch. Normally it’s not something I pre-plan- it just happens: mostly when […]
TWO THUMBS UP: how to use movie reviews to improve student writing
I LOVE MOVIES. Seriously I do. When I was in high school my dream was to become a movie reviewer. I had visions of watching movies and getting paid to […]
The Re:Framed Project: Student Blogging Do’s and Don[u]ts
If you want to create a prolific writer you need two things- first you need an authentic audience, second you need motivation. When I was in college my wife and […]
The Golden Ticket: How to raise student achievement with three simple words
Teacher confession time: last Monday I did something that I hate doing. I brought my home life to school. More importantly I brought a horrible, no good mood into the […]
A Feedly User Guide: Great for following student blogs and replacing Google Reader
So you have a student blogging project and it’s overwhelming to keep track of them all? So you are going to miss Google Reader and you are looking for a […]
Twitter Chats: How to survive and thrive in a Twitter Chat… hockey style eh?
So you’ve never done a Twitter chat eh? Twitter chats are pretty crazy. You want to know how crazy. Well here’s a visual example of what a #satchat looks like on my […]
The Fog of College Readiness: Alarming facts about the CSU EAP/EPT
I originally wrote this report to my local administrators about two years ago to help myself, and hopefully them, understand the correlation between CSU admission standards in English and Fountain […]
Hey Principals: Want to be great? Answer this question correctly.
Everyone could use a good miracle once in a while. How awesome would it be if there was a Miracle Max (Princess Bride) living in your city? Just bring him […]
