What is Blended Learning anyway? At the 2019 TASA Midwinter Conference in Austin, Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist for Google, noted that the technology our students use currently will be the least innovative device they’ll ever see. For my Y2K…
We all know that incomparable feeling of accomplishment. There is just nothing like it, and once you get a taste of success, there is no going back. Our great successes in life typically don’t happen by accident; they are the…
Local Vision for Learning Iraan-Sheffield ISD first partnered with engage2learn (e2L) in the Fall of 2018 through TEA’s Math Innovation Zone (MIZ) grant. During the Spring of 2019, e2L facilitated a design team comprised of central office administration, campus administrators,…
One of my close friends told me that her son loved his 5th-grade learning experience. She said he would come home every day saying how cool his teacher was and how they were learning in groups and were allowed to…
There are not many superintendents that start their superintendency by taking over for a former superintendent who has been arrested. But that is how the story of the miracle in El Paso ISD (EPISD) began. The former superintendent was arrested…
Classrooms are sacred places for our youth. This is where the foundational skills needed to graduate and reach their personal goals are established. Students who have solid foundations easily stand out in a crowd. Their Life Ready Skills speak loudly…
“Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.” ~ Ashley Bryan Every fall teachers begin the ritual of decorating their classrooms and…
Or: Striving for a Mickey Mouse Operation by Amanda Stephens Long before I had ever heard of organizational culture or began to consider its importance in developing an innovative workplace, I saw a sign on my college campus: the distinctive shape of…
