Flipping Update
So it has been a crazy month... these new math TEKS are making everyone struggle... teachers, students, and I am sure some of the parents are worried too. But this is just to explain why it has been a month since I updated the blog. Up until 10 days ago, I still was debating my choice to flip. But I think part of the issue was that I hadn't really found my groove, my flavor, so to speak. I wasn't always making my own videos (and I still might not). I had been making some guided notes for students who don't have regular access to the internet and had told students to do one or the other, but I think a few of them were saying they would do one or the other and then not do either. 10 days ago I went to a technology training and worked with someone who has flipped her HS classroom for a couple years now and I asked her what her secret was. And she said, "Notes are very personal." She then went on to show me her fill-in-the-blank notes for her students and that...