Monday marks the beginning of Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8, 2015 .  I love the initiative started by the Center for Teaching Quality...

The excitement over our March Book Madness bracket is growing.  This past week as our school community voted on books in the initial bracke...

It began with a tweet. A student in my tenth grade English class researched running injuries for her recent #HavPassion independent inqui...

Much of my lesson planning is done in the shower. Turns out, this is true for quite a few people.  Scott Berkun summarizes some of the resea...

Slice of Life Challenge , Day 15 Graphic by Shawn Campbell Some of my best professional development ideas happen early each Saturday m...

I haven't been using my @jenniferward Twitter account as regularly as I have in the past. As I'm on maternity leave, I find it a bi...

My family, my friends, my colleagues, and my students joke about it behind my back. I am a Twitter geek. I love how I've been able to gr...

Facebook, Wikipages, and Nings…oh my! We know our students use these technologies outside our classrooms, but how might such social networki...

This past February, the Pew Internet and American Life Project put out a report on Twitter users . "For many Twitter users, learning a...