Passing the test of knowing how to talk to kids
Marcie Hull said something toward the beginning of our friendship that told me we would get along well. When pointing to a couple at a restaurant during one of our first meals together, Marcie said,...
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Question, don’t Copy
When doing the work to transform learning in a system, simply copying what other people are doing won’t get you what you need in the long run – not with the consistency another approach might provide....
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I’m Exhaling Answers
22: What do you inhale and what do you exhale? #lifewidelearning16@mrchase (for ref: https://t.co/AJSow8AcoJ) — Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff) January 22, 2016 I’m not one for answers. Giving them, anyway....
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I’m Falling Behind My Questions
36: What will you never catch up to/with? #LifeWideLearning16 @mrchase — Ben Wilkoff (@bhwilkoff) February 5, 2016 I long ago gave up on examining all the information available to me. I’m slowly...
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Why We Don’t Ask if We’re a Learning Organization
You may be a learner, you may use a learning device. Does that matter if you’re not part of a learning organization? My guess is no. Today, I participated in Ben Wilkoff’s session at Future Ready: A...
View ArticleWhat if we learned about our students differently?
When I started teaching at SLA, there was a standing assignment for 9th grade students. It had begun with the inaugural class and had continued into the second year when I picked up my teaching load....
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No Question is Simple (28/365)
Photo by Nicolas Picard on Unsplash “In a bulleted list, what are the rules about punctuation at the end of each line?” I asked a room of English teachers yesterday. Answering off the top of their...
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If Students Aren’t Wondering, You’re Doing it Wrong (33/365)
Photo by Rick Hatch on Unsplash I spent a day working with a few hundred teachers a while back, helping them think on the topic of “effective questions”. The conversations were wide and varied. We...
View Article20 Jan 21 – One Good Question
For those keeping track, I went on another lunch run today. That’s three in the last four work days. Running has always been where I get my thinking done. I ruminate. Today, I was thinking about...
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25 Jan 21 – Don’t Teach How
A teacher friend opened up her current events assignment from its previous scope after some family pushback. Current events being what they are, some families sniffed an agenda where there was none....
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