by Jennifer Casa-Todd | May 6, 2016 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations
I currently have perhaps the best job in the world. I work with an amazing team of professionals, I get to engage in learning and thinking about topics in education which most people don’t often get to delve into because they have three classes of 30 to prepare...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Apr 16, 2016 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
In our increasingly digital and connected world, it is imperative that we teach our children to be responsible citizens–both online and face to face. Online*, this means that they share appropriate stories and ideas with friends and family, give credit where...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Mar 1, 2016 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations
What if we believed that everything that we had to make great schools was already within our organization, and we just needed to develop and share it? (Couros 117). This is the first What If, in George Couro’s list in the Innovator’s Mindset and is the one...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Feb 16, 2016 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
A few years ago I was invited into a classroom where students were asked to reimagine school for a project in their Business class. They had some interesting ideas including a portfolio that would accompany them from year to year, student ed-tech teams to support...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jan 30, 2016 | Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I don’t very often write a post about a tech tool, but I have to say, I LOVE Dotstorming as a tool for learner voice that was shared by the awesome, Richard Byrne. I have been searching for a tool similar to Google Moderator (which no longer exists) which would...