As I mentioned back in February, I had the opportunity to get back into the classroom this past semester and teach an undergraduate course called Literacy in the Content Area Classroom at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, PA. I taught a pretty small class of mostly sophomores and junior secondary…
Category: Damian’s Favorites
Ten
This past week, tech journalists across the web celebrated the tenth birthday of the hashtag. While they are ubiquitous across social networks now, the hashtag as we have come to know it originated, as have so many other major events and movements of the last decade, on Twitter: how do…
ICYMI: My Faves 2014-2016
I tag each post on this blog with some categorical classification, and one I started using a few years ago is Damian’s Favorites – this tag represents what I feel are the best posts on this site (or at least the ones I wish got read more than the others)….
Arts Advisory Council: Year in Review & Looking Ahead
In my last post, I described the origins of my district’s Arts Advisory Council. This post describes how the first year of implementation went and how things may change in the year to come. The Past Year We planned to meet a total of 5 times this past year; we actually…
Arts Advisory Council: Origins
In my last post, I spoke briefly about the Arts Advisory Council, a new initiative in my district aimed at K-12 program development in the arts. I’ve alluded to it in several posts over the last year, but haven’t sat down to put metaphorical pen to paper until now. This…