I teach and am proud to do so. At the risk of being just a little self-serving – I think I am pretty damn good at it! I try super hard to form relationships with my students. To really get to know them. To understand them and what is going …
It seems that over the past several years, going back to No Child Left Behind, we have increasingly started using the phrase “Failure is Not an Option.” My question is why are we allowing students to be stuck in this mode? What happened to being able to make a mistake …
An Open Letter About My 2nd Family, I want to take a few minutes of your time and talk about my family away from home: the Edmond Memorial Girls Soccer team. What a super wild ride – and it was super fun. We, I mean they, started off the year …
It’s my fault…I should have done a lot more of this earlier, but for the first time in my teaching career, I have been actively following all of the different items in my legislature. I have emailed and tweeted different politicians this year for the first time. I participated in …
As if one blog page wasn’t enough, I have started a second one, haseledtech.wordpress.com – I wanted to have a spot that would give a little more room for me to explore some of the wonders of #edtech and a place to post podcasts of kids/faculty in my school. I …
Monday March 31st was amazing, the strength of the voices from all different aspects of education, from students, to parents, to teachers, to legislators was amazing. I cannot adequately put into words how great it was to hear from all who had the opportunity to share. So here is the rally …
Last night I had trouble sleeping…I have never done anything like what I am about to, which is to bring attention the the state of education in Oklahoma. And one of the things that really frustrates me was a news article I heard this morning on my way to meet …
For those of you who do not know, I coach high school soccer. They joy that comes with being a part of the lives of the young women who play the beautiful game cannot be put into words! I Rally for them!! For those of you who do not know, …
I love my school and the community that supports it and nothing shows the strength of that relationship more than SWINE Week. SWINE Week is an annual fundraising week that truly shows all of the things that cannot be assessed when looking at public education. We have brilliant student artists …
I love flipping my classroom! There is some culture shock from the students – but if they work hard and are willing, they overcome it. There is some push back from the parents, but it has been my experience that after explaining how the entire process works, they are generally …