by Amy Gwizdz | Jan 16, 2019 | Transforming Learning
This Monday, I was fortunate enough to be invited to Kelly Cibasek’s third grade classroom at DuVall Elementary, where her class and Liz Morrison’s class took part in an internet Skype interview with a real, live field biologist. Jean Pennycook is...
by Bob Harrison | Oct 31, 2018 | Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
(This post was originally the second of a two-part series in 2017.) As I mentioned in Part 1, we can spend a lot of time adding things on to our lessons that make them shine…at least for a while. It’s often just glitter. Here today, gone...
by Amy Gwizdz | Oct 18, 2018 | iBlog, Moodle, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning, Workshop
My last Technology Integration Partnership, or TIP, occurred at Haigh. Teachers Anne Joachim (3rd grade) and Erika Izbicki (4th grade) very graciously agreed to share their classrooms with me so that we could work together to infuse their classes with some new...
by Amy Gwizdz | Sep 13, 2018 | Mahara, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
As teachers, we know that providing feedback to students is extremely important to their success. Timely, actionable feedback provides students with the necessary tools they need to improve their learning. Now, that lesson is being passed down to our students at...
by Bob Harrison | Sep 4, 2018 | Transforming Learning
As many of you may know, I was recently given the opportunity to pursue building-level administration in the Dearborn Schools’ Administrative Internship program. Throughout the entire process, I have had the amazing support of countless individuals in the...
by Bob Harrison | Sep 1, 2018 | Tech Coach Tip, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
As we get started with a new school year, teachers in classrooms across the district are dealing with a few dozen factors every class period that cause them anxiety. One of them is the mere act of signing out and opening up the Chromebook cart. But it doesn’t...
