It has been awhile since I have updated you with what has gone on with our Junior English classes. When we last left them, they were in the midst of planning and executing their Read-a-thon for the Kilimanjaro English Nursery School. Their goal was to raise$15,000 so that the school could provide a salary to [...]
Entries from March 6th, 2007
Multiple Projects – 11th Grade Service Learning Project Updates
March 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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If you could pick a speaker, who would it be?
March 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
One of the members of our school’s Parent’s Association asked me if I could recommend a speaker that could speak to the group sometime next year. The group is looking for someone to speak on the concepts of globalization and parenting. I have a few thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out to the [...]
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How would you define what a World Citizen is in the next 3 – 5 years?
March 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
One of the questions that emerged in the strategic planning meeting that I participated in yesterday was how do you define what a Global Citizen is? I have added the time frame in the title, as this committee’s report is to help guide our school for the next three to five years. The head of [...]
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An Off-Campus Outing
March 6th, 2007 · No Comments · teaching and learning, Uncategorized
Last Friday, I had the distinct privilege to be asked by our French 5 teacher to participate in a brainstorming session about a project that the class was beginning. Since it was a Friday, I got to go off campus to a local coffee house where the class meets to participate and help create an [...]
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Life-Long Learning and a Test
March 5th, 2007 · No Comments · elgg, IL TCE, teaching and learning
Twice a year, the IT Directors and the Technology Coordinators in the Independent Schools of the Lake Michigan Area (LMAIS), whose membership is schools in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, get together and meet. We hosted the last meeting in October and one of the items that we talked about was to create a workspace for [...]
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