Tech into Ed
As a kid, each spring after a long, hard Wisconsin winter, my Uncle Paul would pick my brother and I up to go fishing. I can still hear his laugh and the comment he made at some point in those trips where he would suggest that we would need to “get our legs back” after months of not being on the water. His reference, lost on me at 9, makes perfect sense to me as an adult. In my role working with educators daily, the feeling that we need to “get our sea legs back” encompasses much of what I experience as I t
The past three years have been a hard trudge forward for teachers. Each day uncertain about the next challenge, the next “new” everything, and the constant feeling we might be stepping out onto thin ice. While the obvious challenges of teaching through the pandemic are the primary drivers of much of this uncertainty, we also have to keep in mind the political and societal shifts that have taken place since that time as well. All of this has placed educators and educational leaders directly in the heaviest c
As students returned back to physical classrooms, the desire to return to normal has driven so much of the interaction I have had with teachers. While I have been encouraging shifts in practice, changes in pedagogy, and adoption of new tools to support that work, many teachers have met me with understanding, a willingness to listen, but extensive trepidation in putting any of those ideas into practice. The pining for a return to what we have always known as school, driven somewhat by teachers, somewhat by f
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