Tag: Climate Action Project
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S is for System
“talking about divergent topics in other classes would encourage students to see the interconnectedness of our world”
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Ready, Set, Climate Action
The fall of 2017 was a turning point for me. It marked my official deep dive into global projects… and I was terrified! All the ‘what if’ scary scenarios popped in my head like ‘what if my students hate it?’, or ‘what if I bomb this?’ Fortunately, those scary scenarios were just that… an overactive…
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Mighty Morph Masters
As teachers, I think we are all Mighty Morph Masters. We make decisions on the fly, adjust a lesson to differentiate and better suit learner needs, tweak to ensure better engagement and impact, all while maintaining a positive, supportive energy in our classrooms. These are all things we do on a constant basis and essentially…
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Opportunities Abound Outside Your Comfort Zone
Have you ever looked around at teachers you admire and wondered “How do they do that? How do they have so much energy? It’s like cool opportunities just fall in their lap!” I used to think like that. Then I discovered something… opportunities don’t fall in people’s laps. People work for them. And that energy?…
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So Many Silver Linings
This past week I had the pleasure of co-hosting a TweetMeet with some of my fellow Digital Lead Learners @GEDSB21C: Teaching in the Cloud, in collaboration with #MSFTEdChatCA and I have to say, it underscores what a powerful tool Twitter can be — truly to my amazement. Let me explain… It wasn’t so long ago…
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Don’t Just Interrupt – Disrupt
Definition of disrupt a :to break apart – rupture b :to throw into disorder c :to interrupt the normal course or unity of I have interrupted my normal course plans temporarily for special occasions and other timely reasons, but until recently I had never really disrupted my routine. This past month my class and I have been involved in…
