MAC Week 4-Response to Natasha Hogan

@ Natasha-I agree with you when you say it is all in the way you approach things too. Being the Board is an all around task-in which you are responsible for everything you do-responding / initiating are two major factors in that.

MAC Week 4-Response to Michael Melvin

@ Micheal-I hear what you are saying about exhausting every option before you give up-I really do, but I have had students this year do absolutely nothing in class. No matter what the lesson was, what the project, activity or assignment, they did absolutely nothing. With that, I have to ask, where is the student accountability. Why is it that no one (but me) are telling them that they are responsible for what happens to them as far as schoolwork and education is concerned? Although I am a resource teacher, the student is not doing nothing because of a lack of ability-on the contrary, it is a behavioral concern. I use a quote that I heard at a MLK youth function as a motivation factor:
"if you do nothing in your teens, you will know nothing in your twenties, you will do nothing in your thirties and you will have nothing in your forties..."
I know I am the teacher in the room-the adult as you would, but we are all responsible for what happens to us-young and old.

MAC Week 4-The Art of Possibility Reading

I am a believer of "things happen for a reason" philosophy but I am also a believer that you are responsible for you. A Karma cycle if you would. i have been very conscience of how I behaved and of how I responded to people very early on. I can not take full credit, this is how I was raised. My mother instilled the importance of treating others, no matter their position in life because you just never know. My father taught me that you make your own way, no one will be handing out anything out of the simple goodness of their heart. (2 sides to the coin). I am responsible to my actions.

MAC week 4-Leadership III (3 of 3)

I have decided to submit my my leadership article to be published to 'Edutopia' and 'the Journal' -both are educational informatives for teachers.

mAC Wk 3-Leadership II (2 of 3)

I have looked more into where I might want to have my AR information published. I would like to see my information printed in Edutopia because I feel it has a broader audience and I want to reach the average teacher who has not really attempted to add technology into their lessons yet. I would also like to see my information published to a teacher journal such as the Journal of Interactive Learning Research, or maybe even the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education.

MAC Week 3 Response to Kaye Williams

@ Kaye-How frustrating that must have been. I am glad you stayed your course. I work with regular ed. and special ed. students and it is unfortunate that students are allowed to move forward without the tools and understanding they need of basic skills. During my student teaching, I was appalled when I came across a student in the 10th grade who did not know how to read beyond a 3rd grade level. How did she get moved up without someone noticing? How could I be expected to teach her with the regular text books that I knew she would never be able to read, process, and comprehend (especially alone for homework)?
I am glad that you stood your ground and not allow administration pressure into doing the students a further disservice by allowing them to take the easy route. Kudos to you.

MAC Week 3 Response to Chuck Mills

@ Chuck-I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. You being asked to create and run the video class / program at your school was no coincidence, I hear how passionate you are with working with your students and I am certain that is the reason for it being one of the most popular electives. The issue of underfunding is a sad side effect. So often are we as teachers expected to produce without product. You are on the right track & I know that you will get what your classes need to continue to teach those 21st Century learner