by Brian | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve had numerous requests for links to the student work highlighted during my TEDx Denver ED talk tonight. Just about everything is linked to right here on this blog. Just look at the top of the right hand column under “Pages” and you will see...
by Brian | Jun 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been known to advocate … pontificate? …  for teachers having more voice in general. Well now I’m being asked to do just that … the advocate part that is. I’ll be presenting a TED Talk at TEDxDenverED, on Monday, June 28,...
by Brian | May 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thursday we launched our balloon. It reached an altitude of over 107,800 feet, the flight lasted about 90 minutes, the coldest temperature encountered was -80F, our camera took almost 500 pictures. My 4th grade students have each already posted on their blogs, pieces...
by Brian | May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Travis Fields, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the scientist leading our high altitude balloon project visited our school today to talk to our 4th graders. He explained some of the science that they work on. Things...
by Brian | May 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
With the help of Dr. Jeffrey C. LaCombe, University of Nevada, Reno faculty member in Materials Science & Engineering, my students and two other fourth grades at my school are designing and building “payloads” that will be launched on a high altitude...
by Brian | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Talking to teachers at my school today about how we could raise our test scores gave me some further insight into why change doesn’t happen. They tend to jump into solving “the problem†by doing what comes naturally to them. They focus on attacking the...
