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Instructional Practice & Going 1:1 – CUE Rock Star Admin
The past three days I spent in amazing place – Skywalker Ranch in Marin County. I was there as one of the lead learners for CUE Rock Star Admin, a three-day camp for school and ...
From Data to Design – Reflections on CERA15
For the past few days I have been learning from and with some of the best educational researchers at the 94th annual California Educational Research Association conference (notes here). Yes, the 94th. Just let that sink in for a second. Educators have been formally gathering together for 94 years to discuss the latest research in education. […]
Going 1:1? What About Professional Development?
Continuing my series of posts on reflections from CUE Rock Star Admin one of the real connections lots of attendees seemed to make during my Building the Foundation for 1:1 session was the significance of using a four-tier model for professional development. All too often schools only focus on tool-based professional learning, but this model pushes leaders into expanding professional […]
Instructional Practice & Going 1:1 – CUE Rock Star Admin
The past three days I spent in amazing place – Skywalker Ranch in Marin County. I was there as one of the lead learners for CUE Rock Star Admin, a three-day camp for school and district administrators focused on leadership and more effective, meaningful use of digital tools. The camp is more of a retreat […]
Long Time No See – Becoming a Dad
As much as it pains me to admit this, it has been over a year since I have created a post for this blog. Granted in my 10+ years of blogging this is hardly the first period of time where I have stepped away from the JoeWoodOnline keyboard and throughout this time of silence I have still […]
Kicking Off #NoOfficeDay
Okay…so I’ll be honest. That title is a bit misleading. Today I only had a few hours of #NoOfficeDay (No Office Day). That was all I could squeeze in, but it was awesome! I sang songs with kindergarten students, discussed books with 4th grade, and played the place value dice game with a small group […]
5 Ways Tech Leaders Can Connect with Classrooms
Tomorrow is the first day of August and guess what…I am already back at school! Actually, I have been back for a little over a week and while the summer was short it was a perfect time to reflect and connect with other educators at events like CUE Rockstar Lake Tahoe and ISTE. Overall, 2013-2014 was a […]
School Shopping
When I first moved to Sacramento in 2008 like many teachers I was happy just to land a job. The recession had not started, but it was easy to predict that we were all in for a bumpy economic ride. I was fortunate that having both multiple subject (elementary) and single subject (secondary) science credentials, […]
Filtering for Learning
When I first started working at Natomas Charter School our filtering situation was, well awful. As I have shared in other posts, we were so locked down you couldn’t even to get to Amazon to order a book. YouTube? Forget about it! Every teacher had their own crazy, convoluted plan for downloading YouTube videos at […]
Crafting Together – Minecraft EDU
Creeper, zombie, crafting table, spawning, smelting, command block – these were all words I learned this afternoon from a 6th grader while playing Minecraft. It was amazing! Today was our first of three student-facilitated MinecraftEDU workshops for teachers. At our school March is Minecraft month and the teachers are learning from individual Minecraft Mentors how […]
A Transition to EdTech – CTO Weekend #2
Friday and Saturday were the second meeting of the CETPA CTO Mentor Program. This time all 19 of us met at the ACSA Headquarters in downtown Sacramento to focus on Professional Development and Education Technology. Our facilitators were two educators from Southern California, Kris Linville and Jeremy Davis, and a Sacramento local, Sarah McFarland. As […]