by Amy Gwizdz | Feb 12, 2018 | Transforming Education
Potato Chips, a Lawn Chair, and the Nudging Neighbor On a beautiful spring day, my husband and I were sitting outside, watching the neighbors walk their dogs, ride their bikes, and generally enjoying the springtime air while getting in a little exercise. As I sat...
by Bob Harrison | Jan 17, 2018 | Transforming Education
A Lesson in Lessons Over the past couple weeks, students in Ms. Angela Altomonte’s U. S. History class at Fordson have been working hard at preparing lessons to deliver to their peers on various topics of the early 20th century. Ms. Altomonte started each group...
by Bob Harrison | Dec 12, 2017 | Transforming Education
Over the past week, I collaborated with Fordson science teacher Sarah Collada to design an activity to help students learn about land use and conservation in AP Environmental Science (APES). The activity we devised was a simple group activity, but with a few...
by Amy Gwizdz | Nov 30, 2017 | Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
Staples and Thumbtacks and Tape, Oh My! Walk around the halls of any elementary school in the district and you will see colorful displays of students’ best work, strung from ceilings, tacked to bulletin boards or affixed to the walls and windows. These...
by Bob Harrison | Nov 29, 2017 | Transforming Education
Movie Day Movie day was always one of the best days when I was a student. There’s nothing that quite compared to the euphoria of walking into the classroom one day to see the TV cart at the front of the room. Some of the excitement may have rested on the novelty...
by Bob Harrison | Nov 25, 2017 | Transforming Education
Just this morning, I received an email from Kahoot reminding its users that they can administer “homework that corrects itself”. As a teacher, this is intriguing to me for many reasons. Giving self-corrected homework helps me avoid a little of the mundane practice of...
