Aim to Be Awesome, Not Perfect

So way back in August, I started a post on my goals for the new school year. My goals: blog once a week better website skills  So how am I doing with these?  (insert laughter here) Well, if you follow this blog, or follow me on Twitter, you know that I haven't blogged hardly at all since the school year began.. so we know where I am in that goal.  My goal of better website skills ... well.. that became a different goal - the goal of communication. And it sharpened into 2 goals - better communication with the staff at my school and with our community.  My first goal stemmed from some complaints that information was hard to find, since it could be housed in a variety of places, based on who created it or its content. Also, there were a lot of files on our school server, but those are not reachable when you are at home and you can't open them if someone else is editing them.  One of my assistant principals floated the idea of a staff Google Site. I loved the

I was searching through my Drive recently and I found a file that mentioned emojis.  Students love emojis and from what I have seen, including them definitely can up the engagement factor.  So I did more digging in my Google Drive to see what else I had saved from amazing educators and below is what I found.  I haven't had the chance to try any of them, but I included some thoughts below where they might work... MATH - Multiple Step Emoji  by Lindsay Foster   This would be great for any problem solving in a math class, especially when practicing operations with whole numbers.  You could modify it with integer chips for integers or algebra tiles. I have this for algebra tiles - I unfortunately can't find who created it. Emoji Texting Template  by Nadine Gilkison   This texting template could be great for discussing almost anything! From theme in English class to vocabulary in History to scientific observations! Students could even collaborate to deepen their understandin