Blog - Melinda S. Miller

Take a Peek Into #APrincipalsDay Jan. 7th, 2015

Education Week has challenged school principals to share pictures of how they spend their day on Wednesday Jan. 7th. If you follow the hashtag #APrincipalsDay on Twitter and/or Instagram you will finally find out what happens behind the scenes. Edweek Article < Click here Our aim is to gather a wide variety of images from school leaders in remote, rural, suburban, urban, and even ... Read More about Take a Peek Into #APrincipalsDay Jan. 7th, 2015

The 5 Days of Christmas Teacher Treats

Because I can't keep up with TWELVE!!! Thank you to my Voxer group and +Jay Posick for helping with this again this year. I think Jay did this last year and we all jumped in midstream. This year I let our group of principals share ideas then I took the best ones!:) Since it is AFTER Christmas (better late than never) and you might want to use these next year here is my recommendation.... Go to ... Read More about The 5 Days of Christmas Teacher Treats

How to Blog More Often

So the two people who still read this blog asked why I don't blog more often anymore? That's a good question so I thought I would at least make something up. Here goes.... In order to blog more often my girls will have to rely on a diet of cereal, frozen waffles, and/or ramen noodles. My daughters are now 9 and 6 years old. I think back to my glory days of blogging and they were still drinking ... Read More about How to Blog More Often

Displaying Students' Digital Work

Oh what fun we have had with the new display TVs in the hallways!So I didn't really have a workflow plan and list of things to display so this has been total trial and error. What I found is that once I displayed a couple student presentations more and more students have asked to have their worked "streamed" in the big screens. Options:*Stream from Apple TV. (Our internet/filter/etc. does not ... Read More about Displaying Students' Digital Work

Tech Cafe Part 2 – Redesigning Learning Spaces

If you build it, they will come! So it took a while for the teachers to get comfortable allowing the students to work in this space "unsupervised." I totally get that. Some of us educators are very controlling, Type A personalities:) But it only took a couple of times to send the kids out to work independently that we "got it." They love it! They know it's a privilege and none of them want ... Read More about Tech Cafe Part 2 – Redesigning Learning Spaces

What I'm Reading

This is an interesting list for fall reading. Looking for ideas to work with challenging students it appears. And Beyond the Bake Sale is a reference for the whole year. ... Read More about What I'm Reading