The Case for Risk Taking
The end is in sight; can you feel it? A few weeks of hard work, then that dock/porch/yoga mat is calling your name. A well deserved rest after a year of teaching, engaging, …and shifting….
The end is in sight; can you feel it? A few weeks of hard work, then that dock/porch/yoga mat is calling your name. A well deserved rest after a year of teaching, engaging, …and shifting….
Yesterday was a great day. Matt and I spent much of our time simply watching the #LoveMyHaltonSchool tweets roll in. We laughed, we liked, we retweeted, we saw things that were happening in other schools…
There are lots of reasons. But today, we don’t want to list our reasons for why we #LoveMyHaltonSchool. We’d rather highlight someone else’s reason. Melissa Hickey is an English Teacher at Aldershot High School. She…
On June 1st, the Halton District School Board wants to celebrate some of the great things that happen in our schools and community. The medium for this celebration? Twitter and the hashtag #LoveMyHaltonSchool. If you…
I hate end of period bells. #Observe’em observation day and the Most Likely To Succeed film gave me a lot to think about how the school day can be structured. I don’t know if we…
We had the opportunity to witness an amazing project last week, and rather than write about it ourselves, we have asked the lead teacher on the project, Jordie Burton to share. Here is what he…
I wish I could +1 an image I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Ontario Association of Mathematics Educators conference in Kingston this past week. I plan on blogging in detail about my time there,…
Me and my math classmate and helper Nikolina The other day, Jamie asked whether I wanted to become a student again for a math period. All for it, I grabbed my laptop (as I was…
It’s 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and I’m Line Dancing with 200 Halton Teachers and my cell phone is still at 75% battery. Neither of these things are ever true in the middle of the afternoon…
During the April subject-specific PD Day , the Arts teachers had the opportunity to watch “Most Likely To Succeed”, which I previously wrote about here. This documentary film really resonates with Arts teachers, as it…