I’ve been anxious to get back to the readers of the Media-X Blog. I have been a little busy working on my dissertation, but am excited to be able to share with you what I have learned from my research. Literature in the area of classroom observations and teacher...
In my book ‘The Essential Guide to Classroom Walkthroughs’, there are case studies of successful implementations of classroom walkthroughs and classroom observations described, as well as references to the research on classroom walkthroughs and...
I don’t sleep very well. I tend to go to bed late and wake early. I drink coffee. I drink a lot of coffee. For quite some time (years actually), I’ve thought, “Maybe, just maybe…. I should sleep a bit more than I do,” but this was just a...
(Part 1 of 2 part series on the flipped classroom) Being an “early adopter” educator is not an easy path. My own path started in 1989 when I was 29 years old and a rookie Assistant Professor at a Pharmacy College in St. Louis, MO. My goal was to develop a...
Today I’m going to change the mood a little bit. You could see this as an opinion piece as I never went to elementary school in the city. Who knows, there could be a million reasons why going to an inner city school is the best thing ever. But I don’t know...
I love Steve’s Birthday! Well I love all birthdays because they are such happy occasions… but I especially love Steve’s birthday because then we get seafood at lunch. Now you may be asking why we deserve such largesse. In my last Friday lunch blog, I...