teachersintiaras:

As I’m sure you all know March 2nd, commonly known as Dr. Seuss Day, is Read Across America Day! On this day students and teachers will celebrate reading through the reading of various Dr. Seuss books.

This website features writing and activity packets that go along with the following Dr….

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“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

Today I found a great article on failure and decided to spend some time pondering failure and how Odyssey plays into the facade our nation, according to Mr. DeWitt, has decided to participate in.

I have to say that I agree with Mr. DeWitt - we spend so much time avoiding failure. It really is a natural and necessary part of success, and if we avoid it, aren’t we essentially failing? Tricky isn’t it.

So what about Odyssey? How does it work with this? Well, I believe it helps. When students take their pretests in Odyssey, they often fail one or more standards/objectives on the assessment. When the student goes to their backpack/portfolio, and they see that score, what do we say as teachers? “That’s okay, you now have assignments designed to fill those gaps. You will learn it and show that success on your post-test.” The failure identifies what we need to be successful. So simple isn’t it?

What are your thoughts on Odyssey and how it helps with failure? Please share, we’d love to hear you.

This is certainly an interesting read - http://www.eclassroomnews.com/2011/12/16/the-10-biggest-ed-tech-stories-of-2011/

Have you implemented any of these? How did it go?

How handy!

gjmueller:

I know you’ve always wanted to whiteboard-paint a wall in your room/office/home/classroom. Get whitey paint! For a less permanent solution try notebook whiteboard - pack of 10 will full adhesive backs!

There is always much buzz about best practices in teaching, which has us thinking - what are your best practices?

We’ve been thinking a lot about job-embedded pd around here - it seems like it would be a great tool - no subs, modeling of concepts, direct correlation to teaching…

What are your thoughts? What experiences have you had with job-embedded pd?

Teachers,

How are you integrating technology in your classroom?

Teachers, we’d love to hear about professional development that worked well for you…

Tell us about your most effective professional development. What occured in the session that made it so meaningful for you? What follow-up took place?

The Impact Teacher Academy works with teachers in big cities, smaller cities, towns, and rural districts. We believe technology is a fabulous TOOL to help students and teachers improve education. How has your district utilized CompassLearning Odyssey as one of these Technology Tools?

We’d love to hear about your sources!

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