I spent the better part of my day today observing lessons in a variety of fourth and sixth grade classrooms. While I always enjoy getting into the classrooms (and participating, when I’m allowed!), it’s always a welcome bonus when I learn something new while doing it, either about one of…
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
Chance are slim to none that you’ve been reading this blog as long as I’ve been writing it (though I’d love to be proven wrong!). With that in mind, I thought I’d kick off October with some reruns a look back at some of my personal favorite posts from the…
Blogging the Habits of Mind
This past spring, I ran a workshop at the same conference at which Heidi Hayes Jacobs gave the keynote. As part of my presenter’s “swag bag”, I received a copy of Dr. Jacobs’ Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, a collection of essays about teaching and learning in…
Get Your #Chat On
It was a little over a year ago when I wrote about the weekly Twitter-based chat on special ed issues founded by Deven Black and originally moderated by me, #spedchat. While I can take or leave the real-time chat format on Twitter (it can be maddeningly difficult to keep up…
Online Learning: My Pre-Test
I recently took an online professional development course offered by the Massachussetts School Psychologists Association entitled Ethics 102: The Ethical Practitioner. It provided me with ten hours of NASP-approved PD, plus helped me satisfy my National Certification in School Psychology requirement of three hours of ethics training per three-year renewal…