Jul 26

Curious Combinations + Execution = Innovation

By Tara M Martin

USD 497 Board of Education Ipadpalooza report from my perspective: First, I’d like to thank each of our Board of Education members and the administration of Lawrence Public Schools for allowing me this eye-opening experience. Eye-opening–in more ways than one might number. Including but not limited to just how much sweat and body odor one charter […]

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Jul 23

Ability vs Possibility- Questioning Tips

By Tara M Martin

For the last four years, I have had the honor to work alongside many educators as an instructional coach. It seems as though each time we would reflect together about best practices in our profession, we often found ourselves discussing questioning techniques. In the “Siri At Our Fingertips” world we live in, it seems a bit […]

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Jul 11

The REAL Reason I Chose to Blog

By Tara M Martin

Why Blog? Who will read my posts? What makes me think my ideas might be of value? In all honesty, I had a private Twitter account and mooched ideas from others while never contributing for about a year now. However, a couple of months ago my “fixed Twitter-mindset” was changed upon meeting George Couros when he […]

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