21st Century Collaborative

The Seattle trip certainly exceeded my expectations! It was such a high …meeting all the other grantees and hearing about the success and progress of their projects.  On Day one we all met at the Microsoft EBC and were given a computer graphics tablet  to use for taking notes. The handwriting recognition software was amazing. [...]

Leaving for Seattle in a few hours. Off to the Working Session for the Mid Tier Grantees (Alabama Work).This years Working Session is going to be at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center in Redmond Washingon.Our team was one of the few selected to do a panel presentation on our work. After the presentations we will [...]

    Alabama Best Practice Center  The Alabama Best Practice Center is gearing up for a busy second year of our professional development program that encourages powerful conversations and practice around 21st Century teaching and learning. Working with my colleagues, John Norton and Cathy Gassenheimer, we have begun the application process to bring 20 more [...]

When I grow up I want to be my friend Karen Richardson who is the technology guru of gurus. She is always somewhere teaching educators about how to use technology to improve student achievement and engagement. Check out this recent flickr set of teachers from Greenbrier County Schools using Probeware on a Field Trip to [...]

As I said in the last post  I just got back from the SC NBCT Policy Summit where Richard W. Riley gave the keynote. I was so impressed. He began his keynote by praising National Board as being a good idea and how the teachers who go to great lengths to attain National Board are [...]

A Conversation Among South Carolina’s National Board Certified Teachers Supporting and staffing high-needs schools is a critical issue for the state of South Carolina. I just got back from Columbia, South Carolina, the site of the SC Summit where the purpose was to use the voices of some of SC’s most accomplished teachers to make [...]

I just watched the most amazing documentary called the Paper Clip Project about a small middle school in Tennessee.From Wikipedia– "The Paper Clips Project is a project by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee city of Whitwell who created a monument for the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as [...]