Every Monday my 3rd grader brings home a folder containing all of his schoolwork from the previous week. Being something of a pack rat, I have kept these papers in a cupboard since the first day of school. This weekend marked the half-way point of the academic year, and in a fit of organization, I [...]

In a recent post about del.icio.us, I highlighted the advantages of tagging and saving bookmarks online instead of locally. Having information tethered to one computer is not practical, convenient, or necessary. The same holds true for important data files; your “desktop” takes on a whole new meaning when working with multiple computers in various locations. [...]

This afternoon, after an extremely harried day, I participated in an Educational Policy Committee meeting to discuss Charlotte Danielson’s four domains of teacher evaluation. Having arrived 15 minutes late from another obligation, I was just getting up to speed with the concept of “Evidence of Teaching” as being Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, or Distinguished when my [...]