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I’ve been thinking a lot about programs lately (new occupational hazard I guess). After edCamp last weekend, STEAM has been front of mind. I tend to think of programs from the perspective of what do we want to see students doing. For a 1:1 program, it basically comes down to accessing information, collaborating, creating and presenting using modern…
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There was a trap we found ourselves falling into back in the STAR testing days with data. We spent the majority of our time and energy focused on the kids just below the line. The ones close to being proficient. The ones that theoretically should be easy to move. That was how we (and many others)…
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I have a new title. It’s a mouth full and when people ask what it is, it actually takes my brain a few seconds to spin up to say it. Associate Superintendent, Learning & Innovation On more than one occasion, once I get it out, people have commented that it’s kind of cool or that it’s…
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I was reminded this weekend why I love edcamps so much. After a challenging few weeks in a new role, I was very much looking forward to a relaxing weekend of sleeping in and tinkering around the house when a calendar pop up reminded me that edCampSFBay was less than 12 hours away. I took…
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This question was on a back to school parent form from one of Kid1’s teachers. My wife asked me to fill it out…
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It’s been almost two months since I wrote about my Inbox Zero experiment and I am happy to share that I’m consistently hitting Inbox Zero every day. It does take some work but as an added benefit, I’ve been limiting my “email processing” to 2-3 times during the day so I am not constantly stuck in…
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My personal gmail account is unusable. I wade through the sludge occasionally, but mostly, it’s a lost cause. I really want to try Inbox, but since it’s not available for GAFE accounts, I’m not ready to make the change only to have to go back and forth between old and new. Needless to say, I have…
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The 9.7″ iPad Pro arrived this week and I think the picture says it all. The ink experience on this thing is amazing. I’m an old college rule notebook note taker, and in the modern laptop era, I never really made the switch to typing notes because I like to doodle. Enter the iPad Pro…
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Just the other day I was talking with a district about SBAC (CAASPP) testing on Chromebooks. They were commenting that it was such a pain having to switch Chromebooks from single-app kiosk mode back to regular login mode so the kids could use them for learning. To which I paused and said, “You do know you can…
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We have a problem with Google Chromebooks and CAASPP testing. New Chromebooks auto update before we can enroll them which means we cannot lock their Chrome OS version to one officially supported by SBAC. Major problem for preparing for testing. Given that one of the big compelling reasons behind school adoption of Chromebooks over iPads is…
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