If one of your resolutions for 2016 was aimed at professional development, there’s still hope.
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Author Archives: Brian Grenier
Podcasting for Professional Learning
On your marks . . . get set . . . TEACH! I want you to think about those words.
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The Terrible Teens
C57BL/6J mice are black, with pink ears and long pink tails. Inbred for the purposes of experimentation, they exhibit a number of infelicitous traits, including a susceptibility to obesity, a taste for morphine, and a tendency to nibble off their cage mates’ hair. They’re also tipplers.
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#EPISD PowerUp Flipboard Magazine
As an ongoing professional initiative I will be curating the #EPISD PowerUp Flipboard magazine for EPISD Active Learning Leaders, teachers and administrators. Material found in the magazine is a collection of various resources and articles I come across related to active learning, educational technology, pedagogy, and education in general.
The magazine can be accessed at HERE
Inspiration
Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
To My Son’s Future Teacher
This post is a few months old, but worth posting again with teachers arriving back to school in a couple of weeks.
To My Son’s Future Teacher
Beyond Active Learning: Transformation of the Learning Space (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
There are a number of ideas that are important to consider in this article. A few of which I touched upon in my Master’s degree thesis about learning spaces and classroom design.
The next generation of learning spaces will take all the characteristics of an active learning environment—flexibility, collaboration, team-based, project-based—and add the capability of creating and making.
Source: Beyond Active Learning: Transformation of the Learning Space (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
Integrating Mindfulness Into Education
Teachers need tools and support to be effective in their work and maintain emotional well-being.
Source: Integrating Mindfulness Into Education – Leadership 360 – Education Week
What Can Ed Tech Certification Do for You? — THE Journal
One of my goals of 2015 is to become CETL certified…the question is, will my employer help cover the cost of the certification? Investing in the professional growth of your human capital is, perhaps, one of the most important and effective practices an organization can do to move forward and remain relevant.