Adam Schoenbart

"The more I thought about Star Wars, the more I realized that it’s the mentors who define the saga more than the heroes."

How do you keep your assignments, lesson plans, and resources organized for you and your students?

No matter your learning management system, or whether you are Google, Microsoft, or still using your flash drive, it’s important to have tricks to stay organized.

These are updates I want and have asked for; they will actually lead to more effective and powerful use of forms in my practice.

At the end of the unit, my students complete a self-assessment and reflection. They answer a number of questions about their work and grade themselves.

What if our schools were as exciting as #ISTE? What if our students learned in schools like I do even when #notatISTE?

"The simple act of delaying the grade meant that students had to think about their writing."

Tell your story. Who are you? How have you changed this year? Find your six words.

I’m concerned and frustrated because too often, these paid resources promote mindless duplication of a stock resource that’s not easily adaptable in meaningful ways.

One of my big teaching initiatives for 2017 has been to help students understand more about their learning and progress.

Even when our reality is dark and dreary, or when our schools are overwhelmed by super-villain-like mandates, we can find an escape.

Our ideas have become real.

See the icons in the logo image above? The pants, leaf, megaphone, light bulb, apple, and stethoscope? I drew them with Google’s newAutoDrawtool.

How do we balance the world of grading and standards with a culture of risk taking, innovation, and intellectual failure?

The Ignite format is rigid in its structure but has so much potential in our schools.

I love it when a well planned lesson helps my seventy students learn and grow; that is when I see a return on my investment in planning and instructional design.

This week, we finally started developing our #GeniusHour plans in English 10.

How does this lesson or activity meet the standards?

How do you make the choice between paper and digital in your classroom? When is paper most appropriate?

I’m a big proponent of free edtech; as a classroom teacher I don’t have money to spend and it’s hard to get the wheels of district bureaucracy turning for new purchases.