Workshop with Sheryl

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Sometimes I don’t truly realize how fortunate I am with this job. We here at CA BOCES had the opportunity to have Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach out here to lead our administrators on Monday and then our teachers for next four days! I will unfortunately miss Friday’s session because of a wedding, but I would [...]

High Schools New Face

Monday, July 21st, 2008

What an incredible collaboration at High Schools New Face from  JMT of the Western New York BOCES.  Held at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, NY.  There are way too many people to thank and acknowledge here, but I will talk about our cohort and some of the national presenters.
First of all if you’ve neve been to [...]

Rookie at NECC

Friday, July 4th, 2008

I used to always tell my math students before taking one of my tests to grab as many jacks as you can.  That, and of course to use good “Mathish”.  The reason I say that about the jacks is because I would say that I’m throwing 45 jacks on the ground.  Pick up as many [...]

How do you decide WHO to follow on Twitter?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

From the very beginning when I was shown Twitter at the NYSCATE conference out in Rochester, NY this past November, I had this problem, of “Who do I decide to follow?”. I had never seen Twitter and had a hard time wrapping my mind around it. I just thought I’d get all these [...]

WNY-PLP

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Good closing for this year’s WNY-PLP in West Seneca by Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. Throughout this process I don’t know what others have learned (even my own district), but I know I did learn quite a few things. I started to build my network, and I think that especially early on, it gave me [...]