You can’t teach an old dog…

Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Caldwell

After reading a great blog entry from one of my favorite sites, The Principals Page, I have to say I agree with his creative take on professional development.  The post talks about his new dog that seems to own the place.  Buddy, the dog, use to be a show dog and now has to be [...]

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The real world

Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Caldwell

I have found that many of my colleagues have lots of time to update blogs and write very reflective posts regarding technology in education and education in general.  My tragic flaw is disorganization and time management (ok, that is two), so I am not as prolific.  I would like to post this question that is [...]

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Making it worthwhile

Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Caldwell

I have only had a job at this high school since January. Honestly when I took the job I told my husband I was going to take it easy. I had planned on staying home with the baby, but I was “coming out of retirement” because it looked like a good way to [...]

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Fired Up!

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Caldwell

Wesley Fryer has written an inspirational post called Looking Beyond Coercion, Tests, and Seat Time.
He describes an experience where he saw a teacher (during that dreaded last week of school) showing a video to her kids while she sat at her desk to do paper work.  First, let me say that in the teachers [...]

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Playing catch up

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Caldwell

As teachers we often find ourselves working under adverse conditions and under pressures that we never thought we would have to survive.  Budget cuts mean less teachers, mediocre salaries, larger classes, fewer materials, and more. Morale goes down, tempers flare, and people retire early or leave the professional altogether.  So how do we as “technovangelists” [...]

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Beauty School Dropout

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Caldwell

Eavesdropping 101
Well, today I had to stay home from school. My one-year old had a sinus infection and had been running a fever last night (24 hours fever free daycare rule, you know). So we got up at the usual time and saw dad and brother off to school. I caught up [...]

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