HONK! and the Golden Apple – What a week!
I started the week with five different shows of HONK! with 149 middle school children grades 4-8. The show has been life-changing for so many students. The interaction of the various grade levels along...
View ArticleGolden Apple Roundtable for Arne Duncan and Dept of Ed
Arne Duncan was just confirmed at the new Secretary of Education under the Obama administration. He used to be the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and on the Board of Directors for the Golden Apple...
View ArticleGolden Apple on youtube
I spent the better time of the weekend setting up a youtube channel for the Golden Apple Foundation. It is an amazing foundation concerning the that “all students have excellent teachers. Over a month...
View ArticleMy sabbatical at Northwestern: To create. To learn. To experience.
Go Cats! As part of the Golden Apple Award, I attended Northwestern University for spring quarter starting from March 30-June 7, 2009. Here is my reflection of the “once in a lifetime” experience. My...
View ArticleDevelop a PLaN to Create – Motivate
What a great opportunity to motivate educators to develop and create web 2.0 projects. It is very easy to talk about the technologies, but I feel in order to walk the talk; I should model the projects...
View ArticleWhat I Did On My Summer Vacation
This is a travelog of the summer of 2010. It was incredible and highly refreshing summer. Many, many times I hate talking about what’s going on, so I decided to write the middle school essay “What I...
View ArticleTagxedo Word Cloud Creater
As part of an activity of the Selection Committee for the Golden Apple Foundation, we were all asked to use three post-its and write three words that best describe what the committee was looking for...
View ArticleCreating Community with a Shared Vision: Totally Peacocks
Empower As teachers prepare to start a new year, many create a theme that will connect the students and develop a community for the students. I always had a theme for the advisory, the choirs, and...
View ArticleMentorMob, Remind101, and Edmodo
Back Story This summer at the Golden Apple Foundation’s Summer Institute (215 Freshman/Sophomore Education Scholars and 50 adults) decided to go completely paperless. In the past, all the class lists,...
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