
By far the most creative thing I did this year was the final exam I created for my leadership class–a cross between a virtual scavenger hunt/escape room and a test. I had done a lot of research into digital puzzles and creating escape rooms while helping a colleague earlier in the year, and although I […]

Yesterday evening I found myself in the pool, playing inner-tube-tossing games with my 11-year-old daughter. I didn’t want to go swimming. After one-week back at school, and one more to go before the students arrive, I have a multi-page to-do list that grows each time I talk to someone (including myself). As she modeled and […]

As we continue to shift to blended/distance learning, many of us have discovered how easy it is to take the worksheets we created in Word (designed for the copy machine) and upload them into Google Docs to assign them digitally to our students. That’s the easy part. What’s not so easy is the review/grading. Students […]

Regardless of where we are located, it’s looking like we should be prepared for some form of distance learning at some point next year. Last spring, one of the most frustrating aspects of my remote teaching experience was the constant barrage of emails and texts from students and parents asking how to log in to […]

Relationships will be more important than ever this school year. Last spring, we were sent home for the fourth quarter in my district–like teachers and students across the world, we tried our best to teach and learn from home. It was not a success, but it wasn’t a failure either. The main reason we didn’t […]