Learning, the ultimate goal of education, is not an optional activity for educators anymore. Gone are the days when doing the same activity year after year yields satisfactory results. Change, like it or not, occurs far too rapidly and is a necessary component of contemporary education.

While the work required is significant, the complete overhaul of our curriculum provides a wonderful opportunity to intentionally design the curriculum using the acronyms that support contemporary instructional design. Those acronyms are TPACK, UbD, and DI.

Spring break brings a much needed “break” in the regular routine of school but it really isn’t a break from work for me since I’m a 12 month employee and choose not to take vacation time during this period. This spring break provided a shift in schedule

I’ve been at the ASCD conference being totally immersed in learning about curriculum design, differentiation, and research on how we learn. Here are a few key take-aways to share.

I grew up the child of an educator and often heard that teaching was an art. It made sense to me then as I could easily look at the teachers I had and knew some were painting masterpieces of learning and some, well, not so much. I hadn’t really thought much about that until yesterday when I was fortunate to be directed to CoLearning 2010, A Colorado Conversation.