Finding Voice: Appreciating the Audience Summary

Six students crowd around a wooden, kidney shaped table. Each is excited to share a story that they have been…

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There and Back Again: A Technology Director’s Tale

Beginning in 2013, the theme of our seven half-day trainings with staff has been “Integration.” Any coach or director that planned a half-day training was free to take this…

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The Soulful Nature of Change

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow – John Dewey   Over the past month, I have weeded (discarded) approximately 4,000…

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Reflections of an Ish-ful Educator

Cathy Collins In Peter Reynold’s book, “Ish,” a creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more important than “getting it right.” Hearing Reynolds reinforce that important message in his…

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The Power of One

“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us…

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Tales of a Tech Gypsy – Design Thinking Through Technology

This year’s ACTEM Conference in Augusta, Maine, “Rebooted and Reimagined,” included many excellent sessions on a wide range of informative technology topics, but the session that I found by…

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Opening Doors & Hallways

I was asked recently to pull together thoughts as to why I am so passionate about studying technology. I am a digital native, though at my age someone might confuse…

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Are Your Students Research Ready?

Our students need to be ready to find, evaluate, manage, and use information in a whole new way. The avalanche of information and misinformation in a simple Google search…

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Featured Speaker Dr. Reshan Richards

Next month, I have the honor of being a ‘Featured Speaker’ at the 2014 MassCUE/M.A.S.S. Tech conference. I’ll be doing one session each day. My session

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New School Year!

A new school year is filled with excitement, a fresh start, new outfits, school supplies, and new experiences. Teachers have high hopes that their students will enter with a…

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Through the Eyes of a Child- A New Lens

I remember sitting in my elementary school listening to what my classmates wanted to be when they grew up. Popular choices were an astronaut, a sports player, a nurse,…

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Tales of a Tech Gypsy – Slippery Slopes

“Educational change is not constrained by lack of technology but a lack of sociological imagination.” Diana Rhoten As a new school year begins, and our high school library undergoes a…

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