Helping the Chronically Absent Students who are chronically absent are sensitive when they come back to class. They’re afraid their teachers will be mad or disappointed and they get frustrated trying to catch up and bring their grade up. One way to ease the transition and create a more welcoming classroom environment is to create … Continue reading Daily Video Recaps
An episode of How I Build This with Guy Raz talked about the CEO of Zappos and how he’s created a good culture at his company. He had a such a bad experience at a previous job where he didn’t even want to go to work anymore that when he started his company, he was … Continue reading Classroom Culture & Apathetic Students
I am one week from the first day of school and I am starting to get jittery about the year. I don’t know why but this happens every year. I know I don’t have anything to be nervous about, but I still get this feeling. It’s almost like stage fright. I am trying something very … Continue reading 1st Day Jitters
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur The other day I was listening to the Guy Raz podcast “How I Built This” about how entrepreneurs build their companies from scratch. I was struck by a few of the episodes because the entrepreneurs talked about how making money wasn’t their focus. Rather they had a mission focused organization. I … Continue reading 8 Tenets of a Mission Driven Classroom
I made my first hyperdoc! It took about a week of researching, reading The Hyperdoc Handbook, and wrapping my head around the process, but I finished and I learned a few things along the way. What is a hyperdoc? A hyperdoc is a digital lesson plan for students that incorporates virtual student collaboration and reflection. … Continue reading Creating Your First Hyperdoc
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