Digital School District Survey

Winners of the sixth annual Digital School Districts Survey have been announced by e.Republic’s Center for Digital Education, the National School Boards Association and Converge Online magazine.  The Survey’s purpose is to recognize school districts and school boards across the nation whose use of digital technology in interfacing with students, parents and community, district governing,…

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The Fundred Project

Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> The Fundred Project is a art project that focuses on bringing awareness to lead-contaminated soil in major U.S. cities and contributes. How you may ask? By creating fake one hundred dollar bills (Fundreds). Students are given one hundred dollar templates and asked to design these Fundreds in any…

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Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips

On November 12th the University of Arkansas will welcome author Dr. Gene Glass to speak here in Fayetteville as apart of the Education Leadership Distinguished Lecture Series for Practicing Public School Leaders. Dr. Glass is a professor of educational leadership and psychology in education at the Arizona State University. He will be speaking about his…

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1,000 Hits

Today students were given the day off while teachers conducted parent teacher conferences. While I was meeting with parents today our class blog hit a milestone. We had our 1,000th visitor today (Houston, Texas), and it only took use about two months to accomplish this. Many thanks to all the students, parents, teachers, and everyone…

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National School Boards Association Visit

This coming spring our school district will be a technology and learning host site for the National School Boards Association. Our district is one of four in the US and Canada that have been selected to display our technology initiatives. Our district will host this event March 14-16 and Woodland Junior High will be one…

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Club Day

Today marks our monthly club day at Woodland Junior High. In an effort to produce a learning communities in which every student has a sense of belonging, we have created a club day. Students were given nearly 30 clubs to choose from and signed up for what they were most interested in. These clubs include…

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Lessons Learned

The other day I was noticing that I have been falling really behind on my blog posting. The reason being that we haven’t had any ultra exciting events going on in our class in the past week or so….I mean I would have loved to write another post about practicing punnett squares….but I wasn’t really…

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Tie Tuesday Fanatics

This Tuesday marks our sixth Tie Tuesday at Woodland Junior High….and I think it’s time to induct our first members into the Tie Tuesday Hall of Fame! Above are four boys from my science one class. These sharp dressed students are always excited when Tuesday roles around (as you can tell) and have even gone…

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Ra Ra Riot

Your band of the week is Ra Ra Riot Ra Ra Riot formed in 2006, playing at houses and venues around the Syracuse University campus. The band started to attract attention due to their energetic live shows, enough to gain an appearance at the CMJ Music Marathon, fewer than six months after their formation. Following…

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Submitting a Google Doc

Students, below are the instructions that you need to submit a Google document/spreadsheet/slideshow. 1. Complete your Google document/spreadsheet/slideshow 2. Find the share button in the top right hand corner and link of the “invite people” button 3. After you click “invite people”, a screen will pop up. You will need to enter my e-mail in…

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