I’m very happy to be back in the classroom once again this semester. After I stopped teaching high school English to become a school psychologist, I was only out of the classroom for three years before I had the opportunity to teach a graduate level class in developmental disabilities to…
Category: Reflection
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…
Lighting Fires is Easy…
…but keeping them burning? That’s a whole ‘nother matter. My friend & colleague Jessica Cincotta blogged last week about the professional reading groups in which she and I have participated this year. Read her post for the details, but the “quick n’ dirty” is that Jessica and I actually participated in…
ICYMI: Teaching Social Media at LHS
After our presentation at Techspo ’17, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators was kind enough to ask my colleague Dr. Andrew Zuckerman and I to contribute a piece to their monthly newsletter for school superintendents on the Intro to Social Media course that has run at Lawrence (NJ) High School since…
A Moment of Zen: The Busy Badge
Late March through mid-June tends to be one of my busiest times of the school year. Wrapping up staff observations, completing the summative evaluation process for everyone for the year, and attending myriad after-school concerts and events takes up much of my time these days. Since I became an administrator…