I’ve been plugging away at a book that I started in May, #EdJourney by Grant Lichtman. I will admit a reluctance to come back to this book. It was “heavily suggested” reading for...
After yesterday’s heavy dose of skepticism, I headed out to day 2 of Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire with the hope of finding someone who was doing STEM right. Recognize that I’m not ...
We started a new Guided Inquiry unit this week with a Grade 8 Creative Writing Class. The idea behind this unit is that students use research around world issues, specifically the UN’s 17 Sust...
The great experiment has begun. Not sure where it will go and what success will look like at this point, but that’s half the adventure! We officially have a Maker Club at St. George’s....
We celebrate the arts every year at our school through an Arts Week that brings together speakers and activities through many of the fine and performing arts. We had some AMAZING speakers (photograp...
I’ve been spending my Spring Break wading through Learning Logs, interviews, assignments, and surveys trying to distill common threads from the thinking of a number of students in a Social Studi...
As I prepare to head back to classes next week, I find myself thinking a lot about use of various terms that are being tossed about in my corner of education these days (and, as I write this, I find a...
A brief thought this morning. I was reading through my Twitter stream over a cup of coffee and found a tweet of a Mindshift article from back in June on what the “next-generation” school...
As my school wrestles with ideas around educational technology integration, I find myself thinking more more about the concept of a single device being deployed to every student and every teacher in t...
I’ve been spending the last few weeks setting up new systems for our Learning Commons that will, hopefully, allow users (students and staff) to find resources more easily in our school library c...