Last month’s workshop with Sheryl-Nussbaum Beach and today’s Faculty Professional Day provide a nice backdrop for two recent publications worth some weekend reading: the eSchool News Special Report on Project-Based Learning, and Professional Learning in the Learning Profession from the National Staff Development Council (NSDC). Project-Based Learning Project-based learning, which PBL Online defines as “an [...]

I’m not one for life-changing resolutions, but I have made a concerted effort to read more books this year.  My latest endeavor, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success, is an engaging and informative piece that should appeal to students and teachers alike.  Although Gladwell covers familiar ground in addressing the point at which children [...]

We have made a concerted effort to infuse the principles of Digital Citizenship, as described by Bailey and Ribbe, into our 1:1 Tablet PC program.  For each of the past four months we have focused on a specific theme and used a school-home-school approach to engage our students, teachers, and parents: Digital Access Digital Literacy [...]