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The Phillies did it!
I remember 1980… I can’t believe we waited 28 years for the next one!
School is going to be a blast tomorrow… everyone is going to be wearing Phillies gear!
A View From the Schoolhouse
The Phillies did it!
I remember 1980… I can’t believe we waited 28 years for the next one!
School is going to be a blast tomorrow… everyone is going to be wearing Phillies gear!
My keynote presentation for the Leading the Change strand of the K12OnlineConference has been posted!
The idea for this keynote was to talk about the ideas for school change but to frame the "big ideas" of SLA with the words and ideas of the students and teachers who walk the walk every day.
Listening to 100 minutes of members of the SLA community talking about the school and what it means to them was a labor of love. And while there were times along the production of this video where I was convinced it was going to be terrible, it was a revelation to me to get to the end of it and realize how much the words of the community contextualized the ideas and spoke powerfully to what we are trying to do at SLA.
Tags: sla, k12online, k12online conference
I’m in the K12OnlineConference chat session, listening to Dean Shareski announce all the presenters from the past week, and Dean was noticing how many amazing Maine educators there are who are really pushing the envelope in educational technology.
There are. Of that, there can be no doubt.
But do we think that Maine, somehow, grows better teachers, or is there something systemic that has made it a fertile ground for teachers’ creativity with technology?
Remember, Maine has the most extensive laptop initiative in the country. And when teachers have the tools, the time and the training, great things can happen.
Systemic change can work. If we want to change outcomes for kids, let’s change the systems and structures — and assumptions — under which we currently work.