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Procedures and iPads
“It is greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the world, than to rule a state” -William Ellery Channing Well, if this quote isn’t the very truth, I don’t know what is. As we...
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1:1 iPads and Student Centered Classrooms
And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here. -Steve Jobs It never gets old. Even after 3 years of 1:1 iPads, the magic and wonder of my...
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Starting a Student-Centered Classroom
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. -Rabindranath Tagore I recently wrote about incorporating a more personalized approach to learning in my classroom here and how that...
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New Year Resolutions
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. -Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s been said that what you do on the first day of the new year will influence what you do the rest of the year....
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Educating Each Child
“Grown-ups love figures… When you tell them you’ve made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you “What does his voice sound like? What games does he...
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Cultivating a Love for Reading
My mother was my world and she brought reading into it. -Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer I was fortunate that I came from a family of readers. Everyone read and the love of it was instilled in me...
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The “Art” of the Matter
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. -Oscar Wilde As a classroom teacher, I see many personalities and temperaments daily. As we work together, it is impossible not to know a...
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5 Stars and Two Thumbs Up!
One is rated by others as he rates himself.-French Proverb Ratings…an important part of our culture… They tell us what movie to see, which books to read, what car to buy, and what restaurants to eat...
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Math Journals with Book Creator
You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.- Sir Ken Robinson I work with some pretty amazing educators. These...
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Using iPads to Plan in Kindergarten
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. -Paul J. Meyer Happy New Year! After 2 weeks and 3 weekends, we are...
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Using the iPad for Addition
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. -S. Gudder We have been working on adding recently in class. We have used counters, fingers,...
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Finding Your Passion for Teaching
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.-Nelson Mandela I am in the third week of my doctoral program and the words I am currently using to describe it are...
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Creativity and Inspiration with iPads in Kindergarten
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.-Brad Henry I would love to say today’s post is about an awesome lesson I taught, or an amazing activity I had my...
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iTunes U and You
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King Thinking critically and...
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