Multi-faceted Refractions

On Wednesday, October 28th, the principal of our high school and I planned an experience for our weekly faculty meeting. We wanted to simulate the conditions that we may experience if faced with an emergency closure, either for H1N1, fire, tornado, or other reason to do so.
At noon, the following email message was sent to [...]

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Explorer Hall of FameThis year, our ninth and tenth grade history teachers are revamping and reshuffling their curricula. Because they are changing the content and the way that they are delivering the material, they are also rethinking each of the units that they are teaching.
Later in the year, the sophomores will be working on a [...]

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As a technology mentor, we exert a tremendous amount of energy not only helping faculty and students learn the skills necessary to complete the current projects, but we also devote time to seeding faculty with new ideas and approaches that we know will help them accomplish their educational goals. More recently, these approaches and ideas [...]

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On Wednesday, October 7th, the Family Awareness Network sponsored a presentation by danah boyd, entitled Social Media and Youth Culture: What Every Parent Should Know. ms. boyd has graciously allowed me to post this podcast for others to be able to access.
In this presentation, danah talks about how society has changed from one which children [...]

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For the past three years, the K12 Online Conference would kick off the conference by releasing the the conference keynote on the second Monday of October. This year the conference is moving and will be releasing the opening keynote during the week of November 30th. This year’s keynote will be presented by Kim Cofino, who [...]

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