This is a guest post from Allison Stephens, our HS Assistant Principal at Upper Perkiomen SD. It's so great to see all of our building level administrators on Twitter engaging, but this is an honest post on what it's like navigating a twitter chat for the first time. Enjoy! So I have been thinking about [...]

This is the introduction to my new book, Learning by Choice: 10 Ways to Transform Your Classroom Into a Student-Centered Experience.  When I was 5 years old I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still didn’t know at age 17. And guess what? I’m still having trouble figuring it [...]

In 11th grade I decided to try out for the school musical. I'd never been involved in a school drama or musical, and spent most of my time playing varsity football and basketball. I ended up being chosen to play the part of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. Talk about embarrassing! I heard [...]

Wow, what can we say! This past summer we decided to start a learning space design challenge on ClassroomCribs.com to highlight all of the amazing "cribs" that you have designed for students. Instead of just "aesthetics" we focused this challenge on brain-friendly learning spaces that promoted deep learning and engagement through design. And we were [...]

Imagine you've been teaching for 15 years. In those 15 years you have grown as a professional, learned new technologies, shifted with the standards, had new initiative after new initiative started in your school, and seen the way you have been evaluated move from observations to data back to observations and data. In those 15 [...]

It's no secret we live in a consumption driven culture. Millennials spend 18 hours a day consuming media (much of this is done while multi-tasking so the number of actual daily hours is lower) and the other generations are not far behind. Yet, much of the content millennials consume, is actually created by their peers. [...]

This is my 2014 New Year's post. Making the switch from goals to habits really made a change in my life, and here is the reasoning behind it! It's the new year and just about everyone around me is setting goals. Or resolutions. Or making promises. Whatever you want to call those "goals", stats show [...]

I've heard this question in various forms many different times: How is technology going to save education? Radio and TV were going to save education, but of course they didn't. They changed consumption from primarily reading or live viewing to listening and watching...but the prediction of televisions replacing teachers in the classroom has yet to come [...]

The new year always brings new hope. Whereas in the past I've been hopeful for change and progress throughout education...this year I'm feeling different. This year I'm pumped about where we are headed in my school district and in the larger field of education. I've seen movement and progress from so many different people and [...]