tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59485912022597284062011-07-08T06:33:11.921-05:00In addition to school closings and other announcements, I hope to open some community discussions through this blog. Feel free to check back and get involved as I've found many interesting bloggers who generate discussion about about education and life in our region.Duane Willhitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09095562671164906695noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948591202259728406.post-76837161158297054182010-06-13T14:53:00.003-05:002010-06-13T15:15:21.743-05:00

A quote of the day:  Even the study's author, Robert Marzano, noted that 23 percent of the teachers reported higher test scores without the whiteboard, and some reported lower scores using it. "It looks like whiteboards can be used in a way that can lull teachers into not using what we consider good instructional strategies," Marzano said in an interview. This is from an article on the use of

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Said goodbye to a lot of fine people today.   Didn't do a very good job of it.   I certainly hope they understand my heartfelt appreciation and best wishes for their future.  I also hope they know it extends to their community's future as well. During the graduation weekend I received many well wishers who very kindly wished me well in my new gig.  My thankful response was that it is hard to

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Our second Community Service Day today not only went off without a hitch, but it also reaffirmed that the students of Lynnville-Sully are well armed with a powerful sense of responsibility.  Responsibility to their school, their community and their families that is demonstrated by the instinctive response to the call to serve.  Regardless of the task that needs completed, LS students are willing

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The LS Hawks have reached the state semi-final basketball game!  They will play Calamus-Wheatland Thursday at 12:15 p.m. in Wells Fargo Arena. Because of this game and the huge crowd of Hawk fans we expect will travel to "The Well" we will NOT have school on Thursday.  This day will be made up Friday, June 4.  Win or lose Thursday,, the Hawks will play either at 10:00 a.m. Friday or in the 6:

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If you check some of the links I've included in the previous post you'll find links to blog posts by Evan Abbey of AEA11. Evan has most recently been appointed the AEA's statewide project manager for online learning. Online Learning is becoming a very effective is being defined through research. The convenience and efficiency of offering virtual courses to college students has created whole new

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Believe it or not in one month Spring will be here.  Maybe not spring as we know it (green grass, dry streets, WARM sunshine!) but spring at least as its defined by the tilting axis of our planet Earth.  Typical activities in my cave during this time of year often centers around budgeting, contracts, insurance rates and standardized test scores.  However we have new deadlines and expectations

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This notice was for the 16th, in the posting the dates were wrong.  My apologies to everyone who counts on this site for weather announcements this morning.  Apparently I did not get this updated correctly when I changed it.  For your information, if you're nterested we do post school announcements to IowaSchool Alerts which will send an email to your address or cell phone so that you do not

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In my blog list you may notice an addition.  Alan November is an amazing educator with a wealth of technology ideas.  His latest, which brings me to post him here is the concept of the digital farm, and how he believes we ought to be asking students to contribute to our digital landscape in that same way they contributed to family farming through their daily chores and other tasks back in the day

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"Bill Gates' high school happened to have a computer lab when almost no other HS did. By the time he had turned 20, he had spent well over 10,000 hours as a programmer. If we give students ample opportunity to practice, will they be more successful?"                                       -Malcom Gladwell What else, besides opportunity, do we and students need to be successful?

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As I've been struggling with budget cut decisions, I always come back to what can we do virtually either through shared classes with other districts through creatively making local courses virtual and more accessible to our students in a very tight schedule.  One that I never thought of until reading an article in The Journal was virtual PE classes.  This article presents a clear story of success

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One of the places I've gone to reading regulalry is a blog called Dangerously Irrelevant by Scott McLeod. Dr. McLeod is an associate professor in education administration at Iowa State and has some very forward thinking ideas about using technology (even cell phones!) in the classroom.  Dr. McLoed is a strong advocate for increasing technology use in schools.  Some of his premises are made to

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I found this quote in a presentation by Chris Lehman to the Federal Communications Commmission: "Clayton Christensen, in his book Disrupting Class, makes the claim that by 2019, 50% of all high school classes will be taught either fully online or in a "blended" fashion, with between 30% and 80% of the interaction happening online. There's no question that as we become a more and more wired

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This is my new site for the LSHAWKBLOG. Many of the postings from the edublogs site will transition over here in the next few weeks, along with some new thoughts of course.  Also all your local weather announcements for Lynnville-Sully can be added here from the comfort of my own basement!

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