Teachers on Fire Magazine

So many tech tools, so little time- but these tools are golden to me. Definitely check them out.

I love when teachers take the ideas shared in a learning opportunity and make them their own. True awesomeness!

Feedback improves the understanding of information or skills and accelerates the rate at which growth can happen for any learner.

Repurposing a famous line from Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” to highlight a positive aspect of education.

Jen Hertzberg was unlike any principal I have ever had.

My one word for 2021 is Create.

Now is the time. Now is the time to let you all get to know me better!

This year, I want to simultaneously stream and be a stream: flowing with consistency, connecting others, and bringing life.

Getting Started: #transformation.

When the pandemic hit schools, the lens of education became focused on an essential component of life: being human.

Recipes for Ed Tech “veggies” I cannot live without.

“BETTER today than yesterday, BETTER tomorrow than today.”

Avoid empty praise and move toward prescriptive encouragement.

I want to transform myself to be the best me I can be.

Setting my #oneword2020 as CHALLENGE changed my life and gave me the mental toughness I needed this year.

What 2020 seemed to remind us was that 20/20 vision is more often achieved when you reflect back — not plan forward.

The lack of professional respect started long before Covid, but the current situation will prove that the teacher-as-hero myth is a…

CHALLENGE was the right word for me in 2020, in ways that I never imagined. My #oneword2021 will be just as right.

Semester One of 2020–2021 is either over or almost over. How are you feeling?

Rather than ruminating on the failures of 2020, how can I use my successes to frame 2021?

I recommend, respectfully, that you don’t either.

Tips for parents and teachers of young children and teens

Reframing your challenges and pivots will help you reflect, as it has for me.

This is a two-day week, and I still find myself with existential amounts of stress.