The first day of school is in the books. Not similar to last year, students were in the classroom and masked today. Most teachers that I know are exhausted after the first day and are look for a short respite before heading back for day two tomorrow. Today I was able to see all of my classes and I tried out a couple different activities. This post will highlight a one of them. I started off the…

Building a Classroom Community

The 2019-20 school year officially started on Wednesday.  We’ve only been in school for three days, but it seems like a full week and then some.  Teachers had institute and professional development on Monday and Tuesday.  The first few days of school tend to be full of community building, learning new routines and organization. Everyone is nicely asked to be patient as new routines are…

*Somehow this just now got posted…whoops :)

Well, the last day of the ISTE conference is on us and these are the last sessions that we will be in until next summer (hopefully next summer). I started my day off with the Globalearner, Alan Novemberand his discussion about #1st5days. It was excellent and I learned some great things about helping give the students some really important research tools…