MHS Secondary Instructional

Do you find it difficult to find time to reflect on your instructional practices?  I find that the hardest part of my job is finding the time to do just that.  This is why I started this blog in the first place, but it seems that the reflection is always being bumped down on my priority list.  It's how I ended up missing a week with this reflection. I did talk briefly during the data meeting about how this website is just a soft opening.  So there's that. Well... What I wanted to post last week was this tool -- AndthenIwaslike.co .  This is a website makes gifs.  Think about this as a way to engage your kids at the end of a lesson to get them to make a gif about what they learned, what they felt about the lesson, or pretty much anything else.  Take a gif and send it to me when you're ready to share!

I've finally been able to take a look at building this website that I've been talking about for the last year and I think I've gotten a good framework.  This website is designed to be the one-stop shop of everything you need to build your curriculum.  There are just so many footprints out there with the resources that we offer that I felt like it's about time for everything to go into one place.  That's the goal anyway. I want to be able to have a catalog of PD that is available both online and in person.  I think a lot of the problem with PD for our teachers is that it is assigned to them and not freely sought out.  So whenever I get a newsletter via email or something like that, I'm going to start posting them under PD opportunities.  I don't know how I'm going to do that, but that's the game plan. The other thing that I'm looking to add to this website is a Top 5 Resources for each department.  A lot of the digital resource guidance we pro...