by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Dec 30, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I was challenged by my #edumatch friend, Margaret Sisler to write a reflective post for New Year’s and thought, wow, no pressure! Then I came across this wonderful sketchnote by Sylvia Duckworth and figured this would be a great way to organize my thoughts. 2...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Dec 27, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Using Data
There is no paucity of articles bemoaning the state of professional learning and providing suggestions as to what to do about this. I have been collecting articles about this since I began the draft version of this post back in August. Doug Peterson’s post,...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Sep 27, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Priorities
As a Literacy Consultant, I have long been rethinking the traditional notion of Literacy as simply reading and writing. Because I am also involved in a Board wide initiative to support teachers with technology enabled learning, I have been thinking about the concept...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Sep 15, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
Our family and my nephew recently engaged in an Escape Room activity in our area. We were given a scenario, put in a room, and had to solve a series of puzzles in order to escape. We had 1 hour. The puzzles had us using Morse code, figuring out word clues,...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jul 7, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Setting Goals, Uncategorized
I was fortunate to be able to attend the ISTE conference in Philadelphia. There were over 15,000 educators there, so you can imagine the passion, excitement, and learning that happened! I will share the tools I learned about over the course of the summer, but in...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | May 12, 2015 | Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
I recently shared this image on Twitter. It was presented by Eric Sheninger in his keynote at Connect 2015. It’s not a new image by any means, but lately I’ve been far more reflective and perhaps cynical about using tech for tech’s sake....