Finding Balance (For Me) Part 1

Note: this post is not about education or technology. It kind of comes back around in Part 2, but it’s really more about me. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I posted something new here. It’s not because I don’t have anything to share, or because I’ve lost interest in blogging. Actually,…

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Student Tech Team: Student Leadership in Action

One of my goals for this year is provide more opportunities for authentic student leadership, specifically in the tech support and training that we do with students and teachers. We have a very engaged and supportive learning community here at YIS, and in addition to our fantastic student councils at each division, we have a…

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Orientation 2.0

Last week we started our second year of our Connected Learning Community (1:1 program) at YIS. Although our program ran really smoothly last year, including our first 2-day orientation at the beginning of the year, we learned a lot and made this year’s orientation even better! Here are a few highlights: Student-Led Sessions One of…

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Résumé Redesign

As part of COETAIL Course 3, which focuses on Visual Literacy, we talk a lot about design and often end up discussing (and comparing) résumés. I love seeing how different teachers represent their personality and philosophy through the way they share their experiences! At our last COETAIL meeting for this school year, we happened to…

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Setting the Standard

One of the requests I hear from teachers regularly is that they would like specific outcomes for student learning with technology – basically what students need to know at each grade level. Often they are keen to use technology in their classrooms, but they’re just not sure what the expectations should be, and what they…

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