Learning Digitally, #SOL Day 28/Year 3
Recent weeks have been especially hard on educators as teaching and learning took on a new form. Digital learning. Online classes. E-Learning. There are many names for it. As I’ve…
Category: high schools
A Gift: Pursuing One’s Passion
As I have a student who will be graduating from high school this spring, I am interested in knowing the thoughts of others regarding the direction students will be headed…
Slice of Life Tuesday: I’m Sorry, You’ve Been Disconnected!
This morning I am wondering how many of our high school students are feeling. The school is instituting a new (changed) policy on cell phone usage. As I understand it,…
January’s Season of Limbo
Today, I am having a little trouble deciding what to write about. I’ve been writing this blog since the end of February 2017 and rarely have I had trouble coming…
Field Trips: Navigating our World
Last Thursday I was lucky enough to go on a field trip to the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul with my son’s art class. The high school anatomy…
Track Meets = People Watching
We headed to my son’s track meet yesterday afternoon. It was a gorgeous day! The sky was a clear blue without any clouds. It was 66 degrees without a wind.…
Educational Reform: How many end of term assessments are too many?
For the last few years, our school system has been refining grading policies. It is time well spent, in my opinion. We have been residents in the same school system…
The Unpublished Post
Today, I wrote a post that ended up being over 1300 words long. I worked on it, off and on, over the course of the whole day. Yet, I never…
