The Fischbowl

I've decided to attend Stanford. Sort of. I just enrolled in EDUC115N: How to Learn Math : In July 2013 a new course will be availab...

Are you interested in effective collaboration and communication practices to help you build a framework for change in your school or distric...

I had the opportunity last week to participate along with the amazing Jim Burke from English Companion in an Education Week/Teacher Magazin...

I posted a couple of weeks ago asking how you used Diigo instructionally, and asking folks to complete a Google Form to share how they use...

I asked a couple of weeks ago about Google Forms and the response was so great, I figured why not ask about Diigo? Do you use Diigo instru...

Do you use Google Forms instructionally? If so, I'd appreciate you sharing that information via this Google Form , it will only take a c...

I had the opportunity to be involved with some staff development a couple of weeks ago around our Inspired Writing project . All of our fre...

[Cross-posted on the PLP blog ] One of the fascinating things about being a “Community Leader” in a PLP cohort is the opportunity to observe...

[ Cross-posted on the PLP blog ] One of the interesting things about the PLP model is observing how the community builds itself. This is de...

I’m really excited about a new learning opportunity I began this week. I’m helping as a “Community Leader” for the ADVIS Cohort of Sheryl N...

One of the many interesting discussions in our staff development efforts revolved around the idea that many of the changes we've been di...

Darren's got a great post where he pulls a page from Carl Glickman's Leadership for Learning: How to Help Teachers Succeed : I'...

This post is primarily for the folks in our staff development, to solicit some ideas for a future session. As we mentioned in the session th...

Last week both cohorts met for their third session of the year. Our goals for the session were: Write a 21C mission (worked on by all 3 grou...

Update 12-9-07 : I'd like to thank the Academy . . . this post won for most influential post of 2007. I'm not sure I agree (no, I d...

Earlier I blogged a description of our first staff development session of the year. Last week we had our second session, so I thought I’d s...

Those of you who have read this blog for a while realize that while this also serves as my personal blog, its initial (and still main) purpo...

I suppose I should reflect a little bit on the session we presented at NECC. I talked about this a little in a previous post , that we deci...

I had the opportunity yesterday to use Tapped In for the first time. Two teachers from my staff development (Anne Smith and Barbara Stahlhu...