The New Hybrid Blended Learning

Covid-19 and the New “Normal” Here in Shanghai, schools are opening back up.  It’s a slow process and at our school, with only a few grades at a time.  In another week, we will have grades 4-12 on campus.  So what’s...

Deepening Connections with my Professional Learning Network

Photo by fauxels from Pexels I’m going to start off this post with a mini sidenote: there has been a lot of discussion about caring for mental and emotional health during Covid-19. With that in mind, I’m going to try and remember to be kind to...

Final Project: American Wars and the Just War Theory

I didn’t think that I would find a classroom to teach in within Seminole County, Florida. After many visits to the Seminole County Board of Education and emails sent to charter and private schools, I ended up at a charter middle school, Galileo School for Gifted...

Community Engagement

One of my last assignments for this course is a reflective blog post about the ways I’ve been actively growing and strengthening my PLN, both with other COETAIL-ers and beyond, and how this engagement has helped me grow as a collaborator. While the ongoing pandemic...

Synergy in Virtual Learning

At some point during the current COVID19 pandemic, I decided that I needed to escape the daily onslaught of horrible and depressing news from around the globe. I wanted to check out of life just for about 30 minutes each day (sometimes longer), and all the binge...