Educators keep lamenting how conference attendance is down. This is only partially correct. Attendance is down at some conferences while at the same time, other conferences have thriving attendance numbers. For example, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) annual conference used to have over 20,000 people. At the latest conference, there were closer…
When I first started doing paid professional development work in 2012, I was ecstatic to be asked at all. I had no idea how much to charge or how much others were earning for similar work. Fast forward more than ten years later and I’m very aware that educational consultants get drastically different payments for…
DISCLOSURES: I have no connection to Get Your Teach On. I paid to attend their conference, have never presented for them, nor have I been approached about presenting for them. I am also president of Grassroots Workshops which provides online workshops, not in person conferences. I attended the Get Your Teach On regional conference…
I’ve been using an inclusion rider since April 2019. Its purpose is to move from lamenting the lack of diversity at educational conferences and other professional development to actually making change happen. I wish I could say that I always realized this was needed or something I could do, but truthfully I was comfortable in…
Imagine an educator conference where you’re singing, dancing, and celebrating being a teacher. And also Mario Lopez is there. It’d be close to what you’d get if a traditional educator conference and a Tony Robbins conference had a baby. If you’ve never seen one before, it’s called Get Your Teach On and here’s their 2022…
A group of math educators came together to experience what teaching math in the virtual reality metaverse might look like. We tried out two Open Middle math problems and reflected on the experience. We recorded the whole thing and I wanted to share some of the highlights so you could get a feel for what…
I must begin by giving a huge thank you to everyone at the Extended Reality Initiative at Kent State and especially to Karl Kosko who has patiently answered my countless questions. While I had dreamed of a future with 360 degree classroom video being used in professional development, I thought it was still years away.…
I’ve recently started exploring what education and professional development could look like in the virtual reality Metaverse after my friend Mike Flynn suggested that we try it out. I made a series of eight videos to demonstrate this as a proof of concept. Consider that while this might seem crazy or unnecessary right now, if…