Posts by Tracy Clark
Leadership
Vulnerability, the Advantage of Leaders Who Don’t Pretend
For educational leaders, setting out to challenge the status quo in a system filled with entrenched practices and powerful inertia, we have to we must be honest, and, at times, step out in vulnerability to create systemic change.
Personalized Learning
5 Ways for Smart Parents to Plan and Implement Intentional Time & Margin
In Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning intentionality is listed as one of the key qualities of smart parents. Smart parents are “intentional about creating powerful learning experiences.” Here are five ways smart parents can plan and implement intentional time and margin.
Leadership
5 Lessons Learned in the Transition to Blended Learning
Five blended learning workshop takeaways and seven resources that support blended implementation and #raisingblendedlearners.
Personalized Learning
Why Making Meaning Matters for Student Ownership
As a teacher of both teachers and administrators I do not want to settle for a shadow of learning. I want the real deal. My hope is that my students will get deep satisfaction and sense of pride as they learn.
Personalized Learning
8 Ways To Encourage Soft Skills (Core Dispositions) in our Children
Parents and teachers alike agree personal growth and development matters, but these qualities still seem intangible, subjective, and hard to see and measure. The very term ‘soft skills’ sounds pretty fluffy and doesn’t command the sense of importance it deserves. So how might we, as parents, highlight and nurture these core dispositions in our children?
Personalized Learning
The Hard Road to Soft Skills: Leaving Room for Our Children To Fall
If we believe adversity creates character why can’t we let our kids experience it? We let fear win when we shield our children from challenging experiences.
EdTech
Every EdTech Conference Should Emulate the Energy of iPadpalooza
With conferences we need to know people are more than their current role or amount of Twitter followers. When those deemed “presenters” or “featured speakers” take the chance to really make meaningful connections everybody wins.
EdTech
Carpe ISTE: Sessions, Socializing, and The Food Scene
With more than 1,000 official sessions and countless events and opportunities to meet up at ISTE 2015, you will experience FOMO (fear of missing out), but resist the urge to overload your schedule. Here's the session you need to get to, the best networking opportunities, and the places you must try while in Philly.
EdTech
How Might We… Give at ISTE 2015? #SliceOfISTE
By: Tracy Clark. With #SliceOfISTE, the hope is to have ISTE attendees flood the local business, Rosa’s Pizza, which donates free slices of pizza to area folks in need of a meal.
EdTech
Five Activities That Helped Me Survive the End of the School Year
May we not just survive the end of the school year, but use the last interactions with our students and colleagues to set the pace for next year.