This is now the third year that I tackle this project with my students, and every year, it grows into something even better than the year prior… Bigger final product, a wider audience, and deeper learning! I blogged about last year’s experience, but lost some of […]
I was never a straight A student. I worked hard in order to “succeed” at the game of school. I always wanted to please and excelled at being compliant, the only problem was that this type of learning didn’t work well for me. Memorizing has […]
The other day, my family and I were out grocery shopping (yes, it’s a weird thing we like to do together when we get the chance) and as we finished loading up the groceries into the van, my two oldest boys (7 and 4.5 years) […]
About a month ago, I posed this big question to my students: “Qu’est-ce qu’une bonne communauté?” (or “What makes a good community?”). Discussions and research in form of reading books followed to determine what in fact was a community. We then took several walks, taking […]
There I was, sitting in the lunch room last year, asking my colleagues to wish me luck. I was about to try something new with my students and had no idea how it was going to work out. The bell was about to ring and […]
As educators, what is our end goal for our students? Do we hope that by the end of their schooling, they’ll be able to regurgitate the things that they’ve memorized or do we hope that they’ll have the skills to be ready to conquer the […]