How do you facilitate learning in your classroom?  Is work done in desks, tables, up moving around, in bean bag chairs, on the floor, at the board, or in explorations?  The space in which a child learns is important.  If a school gets it wrong, learning can be constrained or even completely stifled.  Some learning rooms are unique learning spaces ...

I finally got around to setting up a class blog this summer, and I have it running pretty efficiently right now. Check it out:  nrenglish.wordpress.com On the first day of school, I showed kids the blog and asked them to take a Google docs survey that I created and embedded into wordpress–yes, it sounds complicated, but it was much easier than ...

Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Common Challenges We’ll Face This Fall – Challenge #6: Cell Phones. We can wage an endless battle that is bound to get worse in the future, or we can engage those devices and make them work for us. How many of us have used the money excuse to avoid using technology in our classrooms?  Now there is no excuse.  ...

Educational Leadership:Best of Educational Leadership 2010–2011:Teaching the iGeneration. You should read this article. Did you read it?  If you’re skimming, you should really go back and read it. As a part of the “Net Generation,” I agree there is a clear difference between those of us born in the 1980′s and those born in the 1990′s (what ...