By now you know I’m not just about getting things done, but prioritizing the right things to do and then protecting your time accordingly. I recently wrote about some teacher time protection strategies over here at Edutopia – and it turned out to be quite a...
I’ve been meaning to write forever about ClassDojo, a solid and user-friendly app for tracking and communicating student behavior. Sorry to be so behind the times on this teacher time saver! I recently visited with Shenel H., a middle school math teacher in the...
Whether you’re straight out of college or graduate school, or shifting to a different district, it’s that time of year again: interview time. A recent conversation with Alexa M., a soon-to-be-principal in Denver, got me thinking about how to demonstrate Togetherness...
Email: Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay. Most schools let email slowly creep up and then get into a doom loop of oversending, non-responding, pesky reminding, urgent replying, between-every-class-smartphone-checking, and well, you get the picture. We have long...
I usually try to spare you the details of my personal life. I mean, this is a PROFESSIONAL website, for crying out loud. This is my JOB. It’s not like I sit around showing off pictures of my kids or my re-organized computer cords or . . . whoops. Well, what fun would...
