Another year comes to close. Where does the time go? We started in August with freshman orientation and in what seems like just a few minutes later, we are getting ready to say goodbye to our seniors. This is always a bittersweet time of year for me. I am so happy to witness the accomplishments [...]
This video has been highlighted here before. The message from it is so clear. What you say and do on a daily basis has such a huge impact on your students. You may never know how much you inspire your students, but please know that you do! Akevy Greenblatt liked this post
Copy of 1st Annual PCHS Pumpkin Chuck on Prezi
But…..you had better take into account the WHOLE PICTURE! This past week a had an opportunity to travel to the Effingham, IL to take in the All Apollo Conference Band Concert. What a wonderful evening of splendid music. Eighty of the best musicians from local high schools brought together for an all-day clinic under the [...]
Accountability. What a concept. Who is accountable when a parole board mandates a juvenile felon enroll and attend school? Who is accountable when a student misses more than 10% of the days in a school year? Whose fault is it when a student drops out simply because they see no purpose in taking a fourth [...]
Together We Are Smarter The Future of Leadership: Technology & the School Leader: Illinois Administrator Academy on Prezi
PCHS Staff, How would your daily classroom procedures, interactions, and practices change if every student had a device connected to the Internet in your classroom? Would what you do daily change? Would what the students do daily change? What advantages to this do you see? What disadvantages do you see? Discuss.
Reading Will Richardson’s Huffington Post Article today reminded me of a blog I wrote here three years ago. I wrote about the National Council of Teachers of English‘s new definition of 21st Century Literacies and how we as a learning community needed to consider them and implement where possible. Let us consider the progress we have made [...]
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a parent that has really set me to thinking about many things. Sometimes there are situations where students go way beyond the expectations of educators and achieve what was thought to be unattainable. When students exceed expectations we celebrate those great accomplishments and pat ourselves [...]
I am launching a new initiative with this post. I am calling it the Old Dog New Trick Series in which I am going to challenge myself to learn new things, both tech related and not, and share them here. Try to contain your excitement. My first “new trick” is using the iPad to make [...]
