We have a Kapla Block room at the entrance to our school . Its entire purpose is to allow students to build. Children come in the morning and at the end of the day to work on projects and t...
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If you are planning to be at NAIS in San Francisco this year (or will be in the Bay Area), don't miss Edcamp Independent Schools, a free edcamp experience directly following the NAIS Annual C...
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This Friday the middle school students at Synapse School (where I am the Assistant Head of School), participated in their first student lead #Edcamp. I have been trying to get an Edcamp for ki...
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THE EDCAMP FOUNDATION IS ORGANIZING A CAMPAIGN FOR #GIVINGTUESDAY, WHICH WILL BEGIN ON THE TUESDAY AFTER BLACK FRIDAY AND CYBER MONDAY. IT IS A DAY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GIVE TO THEIR FAVORITE...
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In July of this year I started a new job. I am now the Assistant Head of School for Synapse School in Menlo Park, CA. The past few months have been a whirlwind of getting to know the school, the ...
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This weekend I helped to organize Edcamp San Jose , my first west-coast edcamp. Thanks to an amazing team of organizers, Travis Phelps , Diane Wharton , Mary Fran Lynch , Todd Feinberg and Mat...
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This is the fourth year that I have helped to organize the Teachers Unplugged session at NAISAC . This is a participant driven session in which the attendees propose and vote on topics for disc...
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I attended a great session today at the NAIS Conference (National Association of Independent Schools) titled: Engendering Leadership: How Independent Schools Support Successful Female Leaders...
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This week at our middle school we have done a number of things to celebrate and remember the upcoming MLK day on Monday. We started as a whole school learning a little about the history of both M...
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Just before Thanksgiving break I led another full day Design Thinking workshop with my faculty. Our goal was to look at our campus and consider what we could do with our physical space to inspi...
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I am very excited to share that I have started my new job as Director of Curriculum at Keys School in Palo Alto. Over the summer the faculty read the book Creative Confidence by Tom and David Ke...
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I am really excited to be applying for the 2014 Google Teacher Academy in Mountain View California this summer. I have wanted to become a Google Certified Teacher for years, but until now, I hav...
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This morning I helped facilitate our second (annual?) Teachers Unplugged session at the NAIS conference . This is an Edcamp style unconference that allows the participants who show up to define...
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Andrew Vorzimer / Creative Commons license I am excited to share that my family and I are moving to California this summer. I am looking for a job at an independent school in the San F...
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You may be hearing a lot about Design Thinking lately (maybe just from me ;-). In my last post I laid out a Design Thinking lesson plan that I used in one of my classes. Here are a few of my fa...
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Design Thinking is a problem solving methodology used by people all over the world to come up with new ideas. Recently there has been a lot of discussion about how to integrate this approach in...
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Change is hard. Trying new things engages a fear of the unknown that makes most people uncomfortable. It has been my job to help my faculty and students to work their way through their discomfor...
http://edtechpower.blogspot.com/2013/08/resistance-is-futile-managing.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritz_park/4801769382/ I began this year's iPad pilot fully expecting that we would be come an iPad school eventually. The term "pilot" when used as an adjectiv...
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First of all, I have finally found another word for 21st Century. I have struggled with this for a while, "21st century" is such an overused term, especially since we have been living in ...
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfiore23/2122230324 PREPARING STUDENTS TO INTERACT IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY. In order to prepare students to work with an international community of colleagues we...
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I know it is a mixed metaphor, but rolling out iPads this year has been a mixed experience. In some cases it has transformed learning, in other cases it hasn't. In many cases trying to make the i...
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Demonstrating the power of educational innovation to transform learning, energize communities and inspire creative thinking.
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For the first time ever, NAIS is offering two unconference sessions within their regular program called Teachers Unplugged . At these sessions attendees are going to have the opportunity to sha...
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I recently learned about two iPad Apps that allow you to get immediate feedback from your classes. They both work really really well. Nearpod puts teachers in control of student iPads 1. NEA...
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Field Report Locations The Silent History is "a new kind of novel." The App itself is free, but then you have to pay for the books within the App. The book is serialized and each installmen...
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