Pasted below is the follow-up email from the Principal after my year-end performance review with him.
Eric,
Thanks for our end of the year meeting; I appreciated the conversation and talking about the year.
Our meeting was based on my …
Year-end Performance Review
Building and Sustaining a PLN
Yesterday, I traveled to Watsonville[1] for Alive15, the Educational Technology Leadership Consortium’s annual teaching and technology conference, hosted by Monte Vista Christian School.
In the process of co-writing a book that involves interviewing …
What’s after going 1:1?
In our third year of a 1:1 program, I’ve finally answered the question that’s been nagging me since the first day of our program: what’s next?
I was able to present my thoughts to two dozen educators and IT professionals at the first annual ATLIS …
No one cares
No one cares if you’re busy. pic.twitter.com/bH8VqaNEqx
— Bored Elon Musk (@BoredElonMusk) April 23, 2015
I have tried hard over the past year or two to not answer “Busy” when someone asks how I’m doing. Not only is everyone else busy with work, …
Kids will say anything the week before Finals…
Or, as we used to say on Moral Decay in the ‘90s, “knowledge shared is power lost.”
My One Day, One Class
I wrote previously about my One Day, One Class idea. So, what topic-based, 6-hour class would I offer students?
The Art and the Science of the Sandwich
If you know me, you know this is a passion of mine; one that I have invested not only significant …
Me:
Sometimes it’s an either/ or.
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Slack
I think as Educational Technologist it’s an important part of my job to think about how things could be different, and how that could advance the work of the school. One domain for that futurist thinking is Communication: how teachers, coaches, and …
One day, One class
Fifteen years ago a colleague, Paul Hanley, and I went to Urban High School to investigate their one-to-one laptop program. It was then that I first heard about their intersession, occurring between the Fall and Spring semesters. During this …
I’ve learned more than I can even call to mind in my eight years as Educational Technologist. This lesson, I learned from Jamie Pruden, and it will serve me …
A beautiful day in the City for some softball. (As an aside, this was the first softball game that I’ve ever watched.) Thanks to Cydney and Jackie for …
2014–15 Aministrative Evaluations
Embedded below are the results of the 2014–15 Administrative Evaluations by my peers, the teaching faculty, of me in the role as Educational Technologist.
2014–2015 Educational Technologist Administrative Evaluations
These were shared with me by …
My final EdTech Committee meeting
I chaired my final EdTech Committee meeting yesterday, March 24, 2015, after eight years serving as the Educational Technologist. I was asked this morning if I was relieved; truth be told, I had mixed emotions. I am looking forward to returning to …
Collegial Observation by Mr Noblejas
Here is the write-up following an observation of my AP Psychology class by Mr Noblejas. It wasn’t a “teaching” day, insofar as there was no material covered, but it was a unique day; we reviewed material from 13 chapters in preparation for the …
Writing in Psychology
The following was written for Teaching High School Psychology at the request of Chuck Schalhorn. I am reproducing the post here only to maintain a personal copy.
I feel a little disengenuous writing about “writing in Psychology” because I don’t think …
Collegial Observation by Wolf
here is the write-up by Ms Katie Wolf, who observed my AP Psychology class recently:
Collegial Observation by Ms Wolf by Eric E Castro
I was particularly pleased by that class; we covered the necessary material, and it was as interactive and …
"Change is the essential process of all existence"
Ben Casselman writes at FiveThirtyEight:
Spock, after all, was both what I was and what I hoped to be: a nerdy, socially awkward outsider who not only got to explore strange new worlds but became fast friends with the dashing, cool-kid captain…
But …
Collegial Observation by Hickox
Mr Hickox came to my AP Psychology class last week and observed the lesson on Personality Disorders. Here is his write-up:
That was a good class for him to drop-in on; it was far more student-centered than most …
Student Questionnaire reflections, 2014–2015
I reviewed the results of the Fall 2014 Student Questionnaire with some trepidation (list of questions, numerical data, and narrative comments). First, I’ve gone “all-in” with Canvas this year, and I know how students (and faculty) react to new …
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Lacerate, the second video made of a rosegram sent to me on Valentine’s Day by the student leaders of Kairos 122.
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