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K-12 Superintendent, reformed IT guy, educator, 1:1 evangelist, life long learner, father, husband, geek, ex self-propelled field artillery turret mechanic, GCT, CCTO, INFP

Month: November 2015

  • #CUERockstar Reflection – Day 3

    Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost I feel the same way about teaching with technology sometimes… I’m going to stick with the Tech as Tool theme for a bit longer because what I loved about Rockstar Admin Camp was the…

  • #CUERockstar Admin Day 2 Reflection

    I’ve been Han Solo’d Day 2 of CUE Rockstar Admin Camp started off strong with #edugrandpa Jon Corippo going all Captain Chaos on us with a book study by frayer activity. The frayer template is one of those simple little things I wish I knew about when I was teaching, because I would have been telling every one…

  • My To Do List From #CUERockstar Admin Camp

    My To Do list from CUE Rockstar Admin Camp: Coalesce leadership around a common vision for Instructional Practice Re-imagine our PD plan around integrating tech and core (ELA/Math) Help administrators use tech to setup simple time saving workflows Develop story tellers throughout the district to help get the message out about all the great things happening in our schools…

  • #CUERockstar Admin Camp Day 1 – 2am Reflection

    I think we say Technology is just a tool so as not to scare people away from it but the truth is, technology is a powerful disrupter of the status quo and the idea of disturbing the status quo is very scary to a lot of people. As Jon Corippo said to me recently, if we as educators are merely…

  • More Than Just A Tool – Technology As Transformative Opportunity

    Technology is more than just a tool, it is a total game changer. To paraphrase an old Jedi Master, we must unlearn how we learned. To my mind, there are several transformative opportunities for teaching made possible by technology that go way beyond trading paper and pen for a Chromebook or iPad. Ubiquitous Access To Information In a…