How to use technology effectively in the classroom
As educators, we know that a single moment of positive reinforcement can change the entire trajectory of a student’s week. But let’s be honest: between grading, lesson planning, and navigating the daily data deluge, finding the time to manually draft and send individual “Kudos” emails to parents or students often feels impossible. We want to […]
The Internal Compass: Navigating Our Self-Perception Have you ever felt that nagging whisper in your mind, the one that tells you when something goes wrong, you are the problem? Or perhaps, after a less-than-stellar moment, you hear that inner critic declare, “I’m just dumb”? We’ve all navigated that challenging terrain. We all stumble from time
Have you ever found yourself hunched over a spreadsheet, staring at a sea of student data, desperately needing to pull out specific individuals? It’s a common scenario in education, isn’t it? Whether you’re trying to identify students for an intervention, a special program, or just to send out a targeted communication, the manual scroll-and-select method
If you would have told 16-year-old me—the one hunched over a keyboard typing 10 PRINT “HELLO” and 20 GOTO 10 in BASIC—that I’d eventually be presenting at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference (OETC), I probably would’ve asked if we had flying cars yet. (Actually, since OETC didn’t even exist back then, I probably would have
