Sitemap - 2013 - Read by Example

What I Have Learning About Mastery From Martial Arts

My Review of "Teaching in High Gear" by Marsha Ratzel

Sunshine Award - A Little About Me

What One Resource Would You Refer to for Teaching and Learning?

Making Our School's Learning Visible

Five Steps For Schools to Become More Connected

Blended Learning Communities

Create a Buzz with a Book Raffle

Most Memorable Blog Posts of the Year - 2013

A Principal's Bookbox

What Technology Have You Found To Really Boost Sight Word Recognition and Motivation?

Five Strategies for Successful Staff Meetings

Mastery Learning and Grades

Formative Assessment Strategy: Find Someone Who...Review

Are You a Thought-Provider or a Thought-Provoker?

Using Technology to Personalize Learning in Elementary Schools

Why I Struggle with Data Walls

Recommended iPad App: Keynote

Say "No" to Test Pep Rallies

Twitter Lists for the Global Read Aloud

Twitter for PD? Yes! Twitter to Replace PD? Not so much

Recommended iPad App: Session Time Remaining Awareness Clock

Do We Need to Lock Down When We Power Up?

Where Do Learning Targets Come From?

Apps for a 2nd Grade Teacher's iPad

Creative Journaling with Blank Notebooks

Why I Take Class Size Research With a Grain of Salt

Build a Classroom Library with Students

Can a Principal Also Be a Coach?

Preparing for Possibilities

Best Practice Fits All

Connected Coaching, Week 8: Inquiring

Making Sense of the Complex

Reflections from My Connected Coaching eCourse #plpnetwork

If Everything Is Common Core,...

IdeaPaint pilot

Summer Reading Cards

Prune and Grow

Most Popular Pins of the Year

Six Ways to Use Class Dojo for Meaningful Learning

A Kid's Review of Seymour Simon's StarWalk eReader App

Assessing Engagement

What's Your Intention? Mindfulness, Technology, and Hamlet's BlackBerry

The Facts About Ability Grouping

Top Ten Signs You Are Raising an Avid Reader

No More Silos

Show. Don't Tell.

Our Mission and Vision

Voucher Expansion Would Be an Enormous Mistake

Responsive Language for Positively Affecting Students' Learning

Best Read Aloud You've Never Heard of: The Smartest Man in Ireland

Digital Portfolios: Free Webinar by Kathy Cassidy (@kathycassidy)

Why I Do What I Do

Tweet Your Appreciation for Teachers This Week

Top Ten Signs You Might Be an Avid Reader

Instead of No Recess, What About Alternative Recess?

In Praise of Nonsense and Nonfiction

Background for my Nerdy Book Club Post "Why I Think Wonder Didn't Win a Newbery"

A Journey Toward Excellence

Connected from the Start: A Necessary Read

My (Somewhat) Successful Attempt at Disconnecting

eReaders and Research

Bringing the Book Club to the 21st Century: eReaders and Literacy Intervention

If I Post on My Blog and No One Reads It, Did I Really Write It?

Are You Changing, or Are You Growing?

"Preparing for Our Changing Future"

I Say Let Them Read

How Should Social Media Etiquette Be Taught in Schools?

Questions Readers Ask Other Readers

Evernote Smart Notebook - Is it Worth it?

My Island Books

A Takeaway from the Wisconsin State Reading Association Convention

Regie Routman Keynote - WSRA 2013

Interactive Panel: Allington, Valencia, Fisher, Duke, Johnston (WSRA 2013)

Jim Knight: Creating an Impact School - Professional Learning That Makes a Difference

Donalyn Miller: Reading Response in the 21st Century

Jeff Wilhelm Keynote - WSRA Convention 2013

Using Evernote to Confer with Readers and Writers

A "Quiet" Super Bowl Sunday

Twitter Is Like a Radio

Getting On My Soapbox: Standardized Testing

KWHLE: A Different Take on the KWL

Gift Idea for Readers

Increasing Engagement

Should Kindergarten Teachers Use Guided Reading?

Reflections After Teaching About "Becoming a Connected Educator"

Mitigating Student Mobility: New Student Placement Interviews

Examples of Practice: Finding My Reading Balance with Bookcrawler

The Principal as a Coach

"Leader vs. Manager" Revisited

Rethinking My School's Homework Policy