Block it or Improve Classroom Management?

On a weekly basis, I get an email that says something like, "Can you please block Minecraft, because my students are playing it instead of doing their work."  I want to be helpful and support our teachers, but I always have the question of should I block or do we need new strategies for classroom [...]

Going One2One – 10 Weeks In!

We just passed our tenth week of going One2One with our 5th and 6th graders and two full elementary schools.  And I have to say, I could not be more excited about the great things that our staff is doing with our students and the technology.  The goals for this year (the first year of [...]

Why Chromebooks?

The District in 2015 transitioned all email systems, file storage, calendar services, video conferencing services, classroom learning management systems to Google Apps for Education. With this transition more of more of the District’s educators are using Google Apps for Education products in their classrooms, ranging from Google Classroom to collaborative Google Docs. The past practice [...]