Category Archives: professional development

NASSP: The Power of Student Learning Through Leading

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

The February 2010 issue of Principal Leadership, the magazine of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) is all about “Real Work”. There are dozens of wonderful articles on project-based learning, service learning, civic engagement, advocacy and more. We … Continue reading →

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Thinking about summer professional development?

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

If you are thinking about summer professional development, think about Constructing Modern Knowledge! The 3rd annual Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute will be July 12-15, 2009 in Manchester, NH USA (near Boston). In addition to master educators and edtech pioneers, … Continue reading →

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Constructivist Celebration @ ISTE 2010

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

New announcement! Here we go again – the 4th annual Constructivist Celebration @ ISTE is open for registration. If you are going to ISTE (formerly known as NECC) this June in Denver, consider coming a day early for this very … Continue reading →

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Latest MetLife Survey Confirms the Power of Teacher Collaboration

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Want to improve teaching effectiveness? Listen to teachers — and make it possible for teachers to spend substantive time listening to each other. Kudos to Metlife for providing important new evidence to support this much-needed reform strategy. via Advancing the … Continue reading →

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Lessons about projects from Tinkering School

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

I’ve written before about Gever Tulley and this short TED talk video about his Tinkering School. I used it to open my Educon conversation – Tinkering Towards Technology Fluency. Here is just a short list of things he mentions as … Continue reading →

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NAIS and PETE and C

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

February and March are hotbeds of activity for state and national education and technology conferences. Next week I’ll be at both ends of the U.S. at two conferences of interest to educators interested in technology. NAIS is the National Association … Continue reading →

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Ten commandments of school tech support

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

The ten commandments of school tech support Thou shalt test the fix. Thou shalt talk to actual students and teachers and make time to watch how  technology works during actual class time, not just when it’s quiet. Thou shalt not … Continue reading →

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Tinkering and Technology

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Before this all slips my mind, I wanted to post some thoughts about the conversation I led at Educon 2.2 last weekend called Tinkering Towards Technology Fluency. I had a few slides prepared, and a general list of things I … Continue reading →

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Constructivist Celebration at MACUL

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

The Constructivist Consortium in partnership with SIGTELE is bringing the popular Constructivist Celebration to Michigan! Plan to join in this MACUL pre-conference learning experience on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in Grand Rapids. Participants will receive the day’s educational program, a … Continue reading →

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What does project-based learning look like?

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

“Even as I write this, I am amazed at how much kids did in just 20 minutes. I can’t wait to see where they go next and what they do when I introduce ideas such as storyboarding, clay animation, etc. … Continue reading →

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