Author Archives: roseleipc

Great change begins with questioning and evaluation, turning the lens inward and beginning to look at things with a critical eye.  Although I always do this as an educator, always looking for ways to enhance the learning in my classroom, … Continue reading →

The final project for our second COETAIL course, 21st Century Literacy Ideas, Questions, and Issues, was to create and implement a lesson plan based on the enduring understandings of the course.   Our high school AUP, known as the Upper school … Continue reading →

And alas, this is the view of the digital natives and the web generation.  But, can you blame them?  Having grown up on both sides of this technological divide, I can see both sides of the coin.  I can see how … Continue reading →

Some rights reserved by trix0r Can’t we go back to the simple days of the playground bully?  When I taught back in Colorado in the early 2000s, we had a bully proofing program at our middle school.  As in any school, … Continue reading →

It sounds like everyone is feeling like a makeover.  The week after being inspired by Dan Meyer’s Math makeover talk, this TED talks by Conrad Wolfram  came across my RSS Reader.  [On a side note about my tech journey: The cool thing … Continue reading →

Every teacher wants to be great. Every teacher wants to engage their students in a way that optimizes learning and retention.  As a math teacher, I find that this can be a very daunting task.  Especially as of late, I’m … Continue reading →

My final project finds students developing creative videos about quadratic functions.  Collaboratively, students will utilize mathematical software to make calculations and use their knowledge of quadratic functions to create a fun video story to share with their classmates on our … Continue reading →

If we don’t teach them, they will find a way to learn themselves.  Or in this case, if we CAN’T reach them to teach them, they’ll find a way to educate themselves.  Just by providing the technology they begin to … Continue reading →

Sadly, this is SO TRUE! If I got paid for the number of teacher lounge complainers that I have worked with over the past 10 years, I would be RICH! I still know educators that are teaching that ONE lesson, … Continue reading →

Although I may not have been blogging weekly (opps), I have, over the past month, been checking on my RSS feeders that I added to my Netvibes, I’ve been reading the weekly blogs by Jeff on the COETAILS’ website and … Continue reading →