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Step 1: Know Your User

It’s the third week of November. Report cards are just finished looming, piles of marking are stacking up, students...
21st Century Skills, Action Plan, Authentic Learning, Design Thinking

Community Engaged Learning on a Farm in Brooklyn

Every year, I take my Grade 12 Green Industries students to NYC for a weekend of experiential learning about...
Authentic Learning, Teach Cities

The Stars Aligned: Advice for Cohort 21

  Yesterday, my Mom sent me a text message with the above image attached. She had pulled it from...
Effective PD

#TeachCities: NYC Edition

  Why should we #teachcities to young people? For me, today was a perfect illustration of how the city,...
21st Century Skills, Authentic Learning, Teach Cities

The Classroom Where Anything is Possible

At the end of the school year in June, and again this September, I had the great pleasure of...
21st Century Skills, Action Plan, Desigh Thinking

Moving Forward, Looking Back

Today I went for my first long bike ride of the season. I’ve been riding all winter long, so...
Action Plan, Desigh Thinking, Effective PD

Lessons from Building a House: Stalling, Failing, Stressing and Making a Mess.

As many of you know, over the past nine months, my husband and I have completely gutted and rebuilt...
Authentic Learning, Desigh Thinking, Philosophy of Education

Bring it Back: Design Thinking + Teacher Growth

Over the past several months, I have been thinking and talking with colleagues about how I will “bring it...
Action Plan, Desigh Thinking, Effective PD, Klingenstein

Catching Up Is Hard To Do

How can it possibly be March 3rd already? It feels like only yesterday it was December and I was...
Action Plan

What Can Friday Night Lights Teach Us About Learning?

As I mentioned in my last post, I have decided to focus my action plan on using online tools...
Action Plan, Effective PD

An Equation for Effective PD

Don’t we all wish it was August again? Fresh faced from the summer, we were full of piss n’...
Action Plan

Can Technology Cure #FOMO?

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How many times in your life have you wanted to be in two places at once? We have all...
Implementing Technolgoy

How Cohort 21 Can Make You Grittier.

Today was the first official day of classes at school after a thoroughly exhausting and simultaneously energizing hiking trip...
21st Century Skills

Continuity and Change

“Your job is to change the world, okay?” – Dr. Pearl Rock Kane on redefining the perception of what...
Klingenstein

Affirm, Challenge, Repeat.

The past three days have been a bit of a roller coaster for me here at the Klingenstein Summer...
Klingenstein

What is Thinking?

In my last post, I wrote about my aspiration of developing a culture of thinking in my students. But...
Klingenstein
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