by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Aug 24, 2020 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I had no idea that Bitmoji classrooms had become such a point of controversy for educators. There are teachers who are being criticized for apparently spending in excess of 3 hours learning how to create them and other teachers who have made them as a form of personal...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jan 3, 2019 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Uncategorized
When I worked at the District level, we introduced the 6 Cs. This at a time that we were rolling out 21C teams made up of an administrator, a Teacher-Librarian, a Special Education teacher and a classroom teacher (in year 1–by year 3 we were up to a team of 10...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | May 31, 2018 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
I sat with forty-three grade 12 students two days ago to ask them what really makes a difference in their learning. These four ideas repeated themselves in slightly different variations forty times. A teacher who is passionate about their subject A teacher who...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jun 11, 2017 | #socialLEADia, Aligning Resources with Practices, Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
Google’s Be Internet Awesome is a newly released resource that combines internet safety with gaming. It looks like it would work well for upper primary/junior students. It uses a Quest motif and an imaginary land called, “Interland” and its purpose...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Feb 26, 2017 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
Recently, there was a news item about a school in Toronto which chose to ban cell phones. My first thought was, “How can this still be happening in 2017?” My other thought went to the number of awesome educators from the same school District who are really...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Oct 18, 2016 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I have time to write a blog post tonight. Want to know why? Our administration team is taking to heart the idea of innovation and “Flipping our Staff Meetings”. Year after year, don’t you sit in staff meetings thinking and wishing that there was a...