by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Aug 31, 2020 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
With so many boards choosing so many formats for what learning looks like, I know there is much anxiety about how to deliver curriculum. And yet, we need to recognize that students coming back may be just as anxious as we are and may have burdens at home which we have...
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 | Aug 9, 2020 | #RaisingDigitalLeaders, #socialLEADia, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
Near the end of the school year, we offered our grade 11 students an opportunity to have a LinkedIn Workshop as part of our Individual Pathways Program and get career ready. My friend Terri Romeo, had done something similar at her school, and as it turned out, because...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jul 13, 2020 | Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I may be a glutton for punishment, but when a team of great teachers on my staff invited me to teach a Kickstart program designed to familiarize grade 8 students who were going to begin grade 9 at my school, I was excited at the prospect. I also don’t have my...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jul 5, 2020 | #RaisingDigitalLeaders, #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
There has been quite a bit of conversation around our dinner table around people getting, “canceled”. Both my teenage daughters have used the word frequently as of late to characterize someone who shared something inappropriate online and is now being...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jun 29, 2020 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Parenting, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
Lately, I have been tagged by some of my Twitter PLN friends in a circle with the faces of people with whom they interact on Twitter. If you are like me, you probably wondered how they did that. Basically, it has the user (you) in the middle surrounded by your most...