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Author: Joel Speranza

Better Classroom Observations: How to Break Down a Door

September 2, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development One comment

In the beginning of my career I had some pretty rough classroom observations. I can talk about them because I’ve since moved on and  nobody

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Nobody Likes Change. Everybody Loves Improvement

August 31, 2016 Joel Speranza Technology Coach Leave a comment

“Yes, but what do you do with the resisters? You know, the people who hate change?” Here’s the secret. EVERYONE HATES CHANGE! Story Time I

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10 Ways To Use Video in Your School

August 25, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning One comment

Why use video? They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”. So, at 24 frames a second, a 2 minute video is worth 2,880,000

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Find Your Flipped Learning Workflow

August 22, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning 2 comments

“Flipped Learning is NOT about making videos…” I hear this so often when flipped learning gets discussed. I myself even gave a talk at Flipcon last

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My Class of Guinea Pigs

August 18, 2016 Joel Speranza Technology Coach 2 comments

Question: Is it unethical to perform experiments on students? Not the kind that would turn them into a comic book superhero or supervillain. Slightly less harmful

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Why Learning to Code Doesn’t Suck Anymore

August 11, 2016 Joel Speranza Coding and Computational Thinking Leave a comment

Coding has always been notoriously difficult to learn and to understand. For the longest time, coding looked something like this. Now that’s just some gibberish

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How To Build a Lightboard On a Budget

August 4, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning 4 comments

Just to pre-empt the inevitable question; No, I am not writing backwards. That’s always the first question but I also get a lot of others

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Learning is Not a Spectator Sport

July 28, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning, Professional Development One comment

In this week’s blog: Podcasts, Learning as sporting event, Ex-Student Olympians, How I disappointed my Pre-Service teacher and why I’m teaching less and less. This week I’ve

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Why do classrooms have fronts?

July 21, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning 6 comments

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates “The unexamined classroom is not worth teaching in.” – Me, I guess. Why do classrooms have

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How Coffee Improved My Teaching

July 7, 2016 Joel Speranza Professional Development One comment

How a weekly coffee made me a better, more reflective, more fearless educator. Alternatively, what teachers can learn from cliff-divers What if I told you that

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The In-Flip: No Homework, No Problem

June 30, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning One comment

Last week I blogged about the ever-present flipped learning question What if they don’t watch the video? Of course, that post was predicated on the assumption

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Flipped Learning: What if they don’t watch the video?

June 23, 2016 Joel Speranza Flipped Learning One comment

So you want to flip your classroom but there’s one nagging question holding you back. This is the number one question I get about flipped

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