Instant Collaboration Request: International Peace Day

This Friday, September 21st is International Peace Day and one of our fourth grade teachers, Scott, would like to bring a global perspective into his classroom. We hope you and your class can help! Scott has written a post on his classroom blog requesting that students and teachers around the world comment on what peace…

Read More

Parent Coffee Morning a Success!

We had our first Coffee Morning session for our parents today and it was a total hit! This is the first time I’ve actually done something like this, so I have to admit that I’m very pleasantly surprised with how things worked out. I’m very comfortable with teacher concerns, but I’m really not used to…

Read More

20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0

We all know that you only get out of a conference what you put in. So, I did my best to make the Learning 2.0 unconference sessions work for me by moderating 2 of the 3 sessions (during the third session I was totally wrapped up in Alan November’s amazing presentation on Creating a New…

Read More

Time to Connect

Because Monday was a school holiday here at ISB, I was able to spend most of the day online, which, due to the time difference, meant that I had time to connect with some wonderful colleagues during hours that I would normally be at work: 6:00 am: As usual, I woke up way too early…

Read More