Educational Exploits

Category: Best Practices

The 2021/2022 school year has begun! While I am excited about the upcoming adventure, I am not excited about starting… Read more Involve Students in Decisions about Improving Participation

Online teaching is not ideal. In fact, it’s downright lame. But, that doesn’t mean there weren’t any upsides to being… Read more On Zoom or in the Classroom, Provide Students with a Communication Backchannel

As the Tokyo Olympics approach, I have been seeing more and more ads and news stories about the preparations that… Read more Olympic Reminder – Excellence is a Journey

Every year, around the middle of June, I post a blog article advising teachers to hold off on celebrating summer… Read more Don’t Wait for Next Year to Start Planning for Next Year

During online teaching, many of us lost confidence in our ability to successfully impact student learning. The transition from the… Read more Teacher Mojo – We Lost it and We Need it Back!

Social media doesn’t have a great reputation. There are people pushing all kinds of agendas and perspectives, as well as… Read more From the Woke to the Wonks, I LOVE my Twitter PLN!

I’ve been struggling with one of my online middle school classes lately. One of my classes is fine – we… Read more Engagement Things

A colleague and I were talking about next school year. This year our overseas international school was struck by the… Read more Reimagining School Post-Crisis

I was talking to a colleague recently – I teach his son and we were discussing an activity I had… Read more Talk & Type: Restate Ideas in Your Zoom Chat to Provide More Pathways to Learning

A new colleague joined my middle school team at the beginning of this year. As soon as we met, I… Read more Building Effective Collaborative Teams: It’s Really More of a Heart Than a Science