While learning how to set goals is an important part of growing up and achieving our dreams, many of our students lack the skills they need to set and attain goals. Similarly, teachers sometimes struggle with how to teach students
For me, it was March 16 when everything seemed to start changing. Up until that day, even with all the craziness around me, my life was still kind of normal. My daughter starred in the district’s musical Wizard of Oz
Over the summer, my local PBS station, SCETV, asked me to present at their conference, 21st-Century Learners Week. They asked me to talk to other educators about media literacy. While I had done a lot of general digital citizenship instruction
Many teachers feel overwhelmed by everything they already have to do in the classroom each day and can’t imagine having to do one more thing! Many teachers using technology complain about the management aspect of 1:1 initiatives. However, digital citizenship
The past few weeks of this school year have been a complete blur!! Just when I thought things might slow down because of testing and teachers wrapping up the year, my calendar filled up quickly with teachers wanting to do
Reading comprehension is likely the most important focus of the primary and elementary school teacher! In their book Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference, Reutzel and Cooter call comprehension “the very heart and soul of reading.” Without
This month as you are celebrating National Reading Month, try celebrating reading with the ebooks app Epic! When choosing any type of technology, I always consider my instructional goals first. When it came to choosing a reading app, I chose
This year our district theme was “Ready, Set, Grow!” Many of us have spent the year sharing and highlighting the amazing work of our students, teachers, and entire district on social media with the hashtag #Lex3grows. While I have been
So I started off last year strong . . . I even had my list of things I wanted to try (I did get to some of them) in 2017, and had every intention of trying and sharing about every