I really enjoyed this blog post from Catlin Tucker about shifting workflows in education. In her post, she identifies ten workflows that lead to a better experience for teachers and a more sustainable and enjoyable learning experience for students: Shift #1 -- From Transfer of Information to Student DiscoveryShift #2 -- From Whole Group Teacher-led …
Continue reading Shifting Workflows and Lights Academy — Part One
As many of you know, I direct Lights Academy at Lutheran High School. At its heart, Lights Academy is an honors, project-based, personalized learning academy where students may pursue their interests and passions in a project-based format. Within Lights Academy we embed the standards for other classes within the project-based format. One of those courses …
For several years folks in education (and other fields as well) have chosen a word, or even three words, to guide them for the coming year. I have often chosen three words to help me focus on the year ahead, thinking that a single word did not provide enough guidance for me. I debated as …
The name of this blog, FaithEdTech, is intentional. For me, faith in Jesus Christ as my eternal Savior comes first. He has called me to share Him through the vocation of education, and he has blessed me with an interest and aptitude for using technology to do just this. It is for these reasons that …
The restrictions placed on schools during the era of COVID have led all of us as educators to learn and adapt. Even though I came into our online learning setting with experience in distance teaching, I still had to adapt and adjust while working with high school students. Anecdotally, one approach to which I shifted …
Like many of you, this past week was my first week of moving to an all-online format for teaching. It was definitely a week of both blessings and challenges. As I follow education folks on Twitter, it does seem like those of us who teach in high schools have an advantage over elementary and middle …
Continue reading What I Learned This Week With Online Teaching
This week my school decided to transition to online-only education for at least a week following our Spring Break, which is this week. I am sure that many of you are in the same situation. Because of the rapid nature of this transition due to societal events, there is a lot of angst over what …
Continue reading Basic Premises for an Online Education Transition
My father, Kenneth Black, is an 85 years old life-long educator -- one who has had several acts in his professional career. For many years he was a Lutheran school principal, positively impacting the lives of thousands of students. In his 50s he was called to a role of leadership in church administration, leading an …
Several years ago the #OneWord movement began in education. This is where educators select a word that will guide them in the coming year -- a focal point for their work in their next trip around the sun. Twitter is a common place for these words to be shared with other educators looking for support …
Yesterday I returned from our annual Rocky Mountain District educator's conference. While I was there I had the privilege of leading a session on Supporting Curious Learners. We looked at storytelling as one of those challenges that a curious learner of any age might embrace, and I challenged the participants to create a story of …
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