If students can't travel the world, we'll bring the world to the students.

I am always amazed at what people will do for education. These guest speakers donated their time to speak to our students about their religions with no hesitations.
It is our hope that our students learn tolerance and have experiences with diversity to be able to recognize that discrimination has no place in this world.

Do I Think Like a 21st Century Teacher?

Important reading for teachers about Twenty First Century Pedagogy--a good article.  Enjoy!

Free the Teachers! (LOL)

One tip I got when I did my National Board Certification was to make the nbpts.org site my homepage.  The idea was that I would be keeping my goal foremost in my mind.  I think it really worked. 

Now I apply that same idea to other goals:  when I wanted to be better at tracking my money, I made my credit union site my homepage; now my homepage is Edutopia because the Edutopia "vision" is really close to my own vision for school change.  My passion is for freeing teachers to do those things we learn about in our undergrad and grad schools.  Allowing us to TRY the latest and greatest, research based methods.  Allowing us to innovate.

And that's why I keep linking to Edutopia blog posts on school reform.  Like this post on using social media in education. 

Article: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement

Check out the blog post from Edutopia!