by Brian | Aug 30, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Change, Education, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
What Happened To The Time? I haven’t managed to post in a couple of weeks – getting ready for the school year, planning and presenting about the Activboards we received and the digital cameras we bought for each classroom in our school are reasons, but actually...
by Brian | Aug 11, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Education
Teaching is soooo excruciatingly frustrating! 25 years I’ve done this – under-funded, over-tested, overstretched, blamed for poor scores or achievement, etc. Many have told me they could never teach – dang kids and parents and administrators and all. But I’ve...
by Brian | Jun 19, 2006 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Email, Field Trips, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
There is much rumination in the edblogosphere about what education and schools should look like in this way or that. Kids should be blogging, using web 2.0 applications (Wikis, podcasts, Flickr, the flavor-of-the-week app), in conjuction with project-based,...
by Brian | May 31, 2006 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Possibly the most recurring theme that makes the rounds of the edbloggosphere is why the nation, states, school districts, schools and teachers have not been more open to change. Change in how schools do school, embrace technology and project-based, problem-based...
by Brian | May 30, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Cooperative Learning, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Since a few years before NCLB really raised it’s head, standardized testing was already a fact of life for “Title 1†schools (law for “Improving The Academic Achievement Of The Disadvantaged”) and we started to have mandatory “Research-based...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Education, Email, Student Access, Technology
My school district had what they call an hour delayed start today because of snow. It also happened to be the first day of CRT testing so this meant we had an hour less prime morning time for testing, and sixth graders that were somewhat hyped-up about starting school...
