Coming up for tonight’s #OklaEd chat is the topic of #1CoolThing and I want you to have time to process the questions and brag (tonight its OK!!) about what you did last year! Take this opportunity to share the totally #amazeballs things that you do in your classrooms/schools/districts! If you are unfamiliar …
Ladies and Gentlemen, There are three senate bills that I would like to encourage you to add to your session before the deadline to do so passes. SB 708 eliminates any end of instruction exams that are not federally mandated. The amount of school time that is lost due to all …
Taking a break from thoughts on education…. Here is my bucket list, order not important! Run the Oklahoma City Marathon – I was sitting in my car at the University of Central Oklahoma studying for a test in Adolescent Psychology when it sounded like a lightening bolt hit right behind …
I saw a tweet from Wes Fryer that got me thinking – so here they come in no particular order… We need to quit pretending schools have to be so so unequal. It should not matter if you live in the suburbs or are living in the inner city, every student has …
Happy 2015!! I hope it goes super #Amazeballs! This past year, I had 8,900 views – mind blowing to a guy who is trying to share his love of teaching a passion for learning!! There were 46 total posts that covered everything from legislative issues, gamification, flipclass, the ISTE conference, and …
My family loves to watch Doctor Who – especially the reboot! As we watch the latest version of The Doctor save the world (yet again) I am reminded about some very interesting similarities between Doctor Who and My Classroom… The Doctor = The Teacher If you haven’t seen an episode of Doctor …
Gamification has started! If you have been following this blog over the summer, then you know that I am making a change to gamification and mastery learning in my calculus classes this year. The students will get credit to spend in the market for doing what they are supposed to …
In the summer of 2013, I had the opportunity to go to the Model Schools Conference in Washington D.C. I got some nuggets to bring back to my school and classroom. One of my colleagues picked up a golden nugget and shared it with me as we rode to the …
Hello Moms, Dads, and Guardians! Greeting Students! I want to let you know how excited I am that I will be your PreAP Precalculus or Calculus teacher this year. I have been hard at work all summer planning out the super great things that we are going to do and …
If you have been following this blog over the past couple of months, then you know that I have been taking the step towards gamifying my calculus classes this school year. I am really excited about this, but also really nervous. One of the biggest reasons for my excitement is …