Latest articles by Eric Sheninger
From the Principal's Office: Our Work Defines Our Legacy
Over the past few years my work has been aligned to digital leadership and has ultimately defined me as an educator, leader, and person.
From the Principal's Office: Amazing Students Do Amazing Things
She creates amazing art as a means to continually demonstrate her passions while learning new skills and techniques in the process.
From the Principal's Office: Reinventing Writing by @Coolcatteacher
I have seen all too often technology just get dumped on teachers and schools with no rhyme or reason.
From the Principal's Office: Schools That Work For Kids
Our education system has become so efficient in sustaining a century old model because it is easy and safe.
From the Principal's Office: Roadmap to a Job-Embedded Growth Model
My inspiration came in the form of the Google 80/20 Innovation Model.
From the Principal's Office: #SaveEdShelf
I was recently notified by William Jenkins that EdShelf announced it will be ceasing trading at the end of this month.
From the Principal's Office: Raising the Bar on Learning
In my opinion inquiry-based learning is one of the best pedagogical techniques available to teachers.
From the Principal's Office: Excuses Hold Us Back
If education is good for one thing, it is for making excuses not to move forward.
Twitter as a Tool For Academic Discourse
New Milford High School teachers Jessica Groff and Joanna Westbrook created a Common Core aligned English Language Arts (ELA) task that incorporated Twitter into their unit on Julius Caesar
From the Principal's Office: Change is a Mindset
The essential elements that work as catalysts for the change process include the following:
From the Principal's Office: 3D Virtual Learning a New Reality
Using the Protosphere platform we are exploring the unique pedagogy in a virtual environment and technology as the learning environment
From the Principal's Office: Simple Yet Effective
Many districts, schools, and administrators are convinced that social media has absolutely no place in education, even though the whole entire world using it for some reason or another.
From the Principal's Office: Using EdTech to Enhance Science Learning
Miss Ginter’s biology students at New Milford High School have been using Padlet as a forum to post answers to teacher-created questions, as well as student-created questions.
From the Principal's Office: Inquiry-Based, Constructivist Learning in Physics
She asked the students to come up with different collisions and predict how the forces will compare to each other based on the collisions.
From the Principal's Office: Makerspaces Provide a World of Opportunities
Mrs. Vicari then challenged the students to use all the elements of Visual merchandising and display to create a model of what our school store should look like.
Students Yearn For Creativity, Not Tests
I can honestly say that this was one of the best, most inspiring, thought-provoking student presentations I have ever seen.
From the Principal's Office: QR Codes in the Math Classroom
The level of engagement increased dramatically with the use of QR codes and simply allowing students to utilize their cell phones in the learning process!
From the Principal's Office: Global Connections Made Possible Through Technology
After they selected their charities and then began their research, students were having amazing “real world” experiences.
From the Principal's Office:The Next Generation in Student Flashcards
One of the reasons why Cardkiwi is so effective is because it utilizes a memory building technique known as spaced repetition.
Creating Our Own Unique Learning Environments #DigiLead
One of the most amazing transformations that has taken place at NMHS is the creation of the Makerspace in what was our traditional library.
