This is one of several posts that I have to reflect on and share my learning from the sessions I attended at the ASCD #Empower17 conference. I am a huge fan of Hattie’s work shared in Visible Learning. If you are not familiar with this research, the key # to know is that when a strategy … [Read more…]
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know from my tweets that I just attended the ASCD Empower 17 conference in Anaheim, California. The last (and first) time I got to attend an ASCD conference was 4 years ago when it was in Chicago. This year’s conference came full circle for me, because in … [Read more…]
This year I had the experience of starting a robotics team for our students in grades 5-7. I have absolutely NO experience with robotics, engineering, programming or anything of the sort, but after hearing our high school robotics team present at a school board meeting, I knew I had to find a way to make … [Read more…]