The Best Five Minutes
Happy New Year! While it’s a brand new (Gregorian) calendar year, educators in the US are just about smack in the middle of the school year. Seasonal Affective Disorder notwithstanding, it’s easy to...
View Article2012 By The Numbers
I don’t know if it’s my school psychology training or the ZOMG DATA craze that has gripped all facets of public education in the last few years, but I’m becoming increasingly interested in looking at...
View ArticleHow We Flipped Our Faculty Meeting
On January 14, 2013, my school held its first “Flipped Faculty Meeting” (FFM). Just as the “flipped classroom” model seeks to relegate rote content delivery to non-class time and make more efficient...
View ArticleI’m Damian Bariexca, and This Is How I Internet
I can’t pinpoint exactly why, but five years after joining Facebook, I’m starting to sour on the service. In my experience, it’s good for a few things like keeping up with people from my past or...
View ArticleAnd Now For Something Completely Different
Fair warning: this post has nothing to do with any of the topics I usually write about. I really just want to brag about my wife, and since it’s my blog, after all… ANYWAY – just putting it out there...
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Nodes in the Network
So a funny thing happened on the way to my inbox… I received an email early last month through the “Contact” page on my website with the subject line, “Do you know a child named Kiera who would use a...
View ArticleFurther Flipping
Hot on the heels of a successful inaugural flipped faculty meeting (FFM) in January, our school held another one in lieu of our traditional weekly faculty meeting on February 25, 2013. Things seemed to...
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Words Mean Things IV
For some context, see my previous three “Words Mean Things” posts. Last time I wrote one of these posts, girls were too pretty to do math. I guess a lot has changed in the STEM world in the last two...
View ArticleIntroducing My Dissertation
Recently I was asked to write a blurb about my plans for my doctoral dissertation – what it is and why I’m interested in it. Here’s what I had to say: *** My research will focus on analyzing and...
View ArticleAnnouncing Edcamp Leadership 2013!
This post is cross-posted from the official Edcamp Leadership blog, and originally appeared on April 6, 2013. We are pleased to announce that Edcamp Leadership 2013 is officially on! Join us on Monday,...
View ArticleComing Attractions
Ever since my initial headlong dive into blogging in 2007, experience has taught me that I need to pace myself in order to avoid running out of things to write about. Maintaining a twice monthly...
View ArticleWhat’s Good for the Goose
Amidst the seemingly endless parade of art projects, desk clean-outs, and partially depleted school supplies that have been coming home over the past few weeks, my son brought home a portfolio of his...
View ArticleWhy I Love My Kindle (and Your Students Might, Too)
For my birthday/Father’s Day gift this year, my wife and kids got me the newest non-tablet model of the Amazon Kindle, the Paperwhite. I’ve already read several books on it in the month plus I’ve had...
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Use Android 4.3 Owner Info to Recover a Lost Nexus 7
To celebrate my blog’s sixth birthday I thought I’d go back to my (ed)tech blogging roots and do a quick write-up on my new toy, Google’s updated Nexus 7 tablet. One of the changes Google brought to...
View ArticleResume, Cover Letter…. Blog?
Justin Tarte recently wrote about the limitations of resumes in the hiring process and the role personal blogs and websites can play therein, particularly as portfolios of our professional learning,...
View ArticleCheck Your Email
Whether you started two weeks ago or are starting soon, welcome back to school! I hope your summer was refreshing and rejuvenating. I’m in the midst of preparing for a return to work and grad school...
View ArticlePD for NJ: Edscape & EdcampNJ
We’re finally back into the swing of things at my school, which means our attention is turning from ironing out first week kinks to maintaining a smooth and steady course. It’s business as usual...
View ArticleA Face for (Edcamp) Radio
From the Shameless Self-Promotion Department: I’m surfacing from the depths of grad school work for a quickie post to say that I was honored to be interviewed for an episode of Edcamp Radio last month....
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300 Miles
While my surgery to correct FAI is now nearly two full years behind me (December 2011), I continue to reap the benefits of goal-setting during the recovery process. As I wrote last year, my long-term...
View ArticleNew Blog on the Block
In an effort to both a) document the work we do at our school to support character education and social-emotional growth and b) publicize that information to our district’s community, the guidance...
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