Connecting Classrooms Across Continents

Jen Wagner and I are so thrilled to be sharing our thoughts about globally collaborative projects at the wonderful K12 Online conference this October. Here’s the title and description of our session: Connecting Classrooms Across Continents: Planning and Implementing Globally Collaborative Projects Ready to “flatten” your classroom walls? Looking to take web 2.0 tools to…

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Ready, Set, Action!

As part of our organizational goal this year, all teams are participating in an action research project. Although each team is focusing in slightly different areas based on their needs and observations over the past year, the ultimate goal for all of us is improving student learning. We’re following a standard action research process: Lucky…

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ISB21: A New Team for a New Year

Last year when I arrived at the International School Bangkok, I stepped into a fabulous new learning space we now call The Learning Hub: Not only does it look amazing, but the concept of our Hub is to combine digital and traditional literacy into one flexible learning zone where students, teachers and parents alike can…

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Getting to Know You

At the beginning of every school year, I’m reminded of how important it is to build collaborative relationships with teachers. As a resource person I believe the most crucial area of my relationship with teachers is becoming a true collaborative partner with classroom teachers – actually teaching together with them in the classroom, building on…

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Students Teaching Students

I just had a fantastic meeting with two of our wonderful grade 5 teachers, Sandra and Diane, to brainstorm ways to naturally embed 21st century literacy skills into our (Lucy Caulkins) Readers’ Workshop (RW) units of study for next school year (Reading is a school focus for next year). The grade 5 team is looking…

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