Summer Learning => School Year Transformation

My Twitter and Facebook are full of the same lament lately. Where has the summer gone? How can it be that the lazy days of summer that I remember as a kid somehow fly by now that I'm ... (Well, we'll just leave that sentence unfinished.)

There are more than a few things unfinished around here. I didn't paint the hallway and it got too hot to have a garage sale. On the professional side, I didn't finish the stack of books that I hoped to read and I still have a ways to go to complete my website. But, I did complete a few things.  I read Launch by John Spencer and A.J. Juliani.  The Launch book study combined with a collaboration between Toutoule Ntoya and some amazingly creative uses of Snapchat shared by Cynthia Day have led to concrete ideas for the 2016/17 year. We plan to connect our students to collaborate on life-based science projects using a variety of digital tools for data collection, research and sharing.

There's a lot more and that brings me to #PasstheScopeEDU, August Edition. Our topic for August 18, 2016 is how we're taking what we did this summer and implementing it in our educational practice this year. Beginning at Noon EST and lasting all day, teachers, technology coaches, administrators, curriculum specialists and consultants across the country and around the world will be sharing their plans for taking their summer learning back to school to transform their school year.

For tips on how to tune in and participate in Pass the Scope EDU, check out my friend and super amazing educator Derek Larson's blog at: Ed-Tech Babble

Here's the Broadcast Lineup for #PasstheScopeEDU, August Edition.