Ontario Summit 2018

Ontario Summit 2018

The EdTech Ontario Summit has been my favourite conference for the last few years.  I will again be presenting on GoFormative, one of my favourite tools as I've mentioned in previous posts.  

If you see me there, make sure you say Hi!  Love to meet and catch up with you!

You can find my resources here:

Ontario Summmit 2018 resources

Pi Day

Pi Day

March break here in our school board always seems to coincide with Pi Day.  March 14.  
3.1415926 is what is embedded into my memory.  They have actually found over 9 trillion digits of Pi to date.  

I always eat Pie on Pi day.  I always make my Pie for Pi day.   

I love Pi Day!

So I made No Bake Oreo Pie this year.  Still enjoying it as it lives in freezer.  Yum.

 

My Students give me Reasons to Teach

Relationships

Teaching is more about the connections and relationships we have with our colleagues and students than with the curriculum.  Don't get me wrong, passion for the subject is important as without passion there is no enthusiasm over the long term for what we are teaching our students.  But greater than that is the idea that if we get to know our students as people rather than a number or a grade, then they will be more inclined to respect and enjoy the learning journey.  My students are not perfect - they make poor choices sometimes but they are young and learn.  Hopefully the next time they make a better choice.  Sometimes personalities clash - human nature dictates that will happen.  Sometimes we have more connects to some than others like anywhere in life.  All students should be treated fairly all the same.  

My students make be laugh, make me cry, inspire me and give me a reason to come to school every day.  

I write poetry for fun.  I wrote them a poem for Valentine's Day. 

  

Math and Poetry

Math is Poetry

Math is a poetry all of its own.  

Language can be beautiful too and as some of you know I like to dabble in poetry.

I have seen this video before, but thought I'd share it as it combines (first 4 minutes) of both math and poetry but rest is good too.    The math people will laugh at all the same place I do.

Enjoy!