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Clarifying the Problem
8/31/23 – Thinking about lag and lead measures in my other coursework for my innovation plan has helped me think more about gathering data that supports and improves my plan. If I can’t show success through data, my plan will not have the buy-in for my participants and my administration that I require (McChesney, et al,,…
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Recognizing the Misperceptions
8/30/23 – In developing my Action Research Plan, I think Implementing and Collecting the data may be the most difficult to carry out since I will be utilizing other teachers’ classrooms and their students (Mertler, 2022). With this situation, I need to have buy-in from the participants – especially the teachers, as well as, the administrators…
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New School Year
8/20/2023 – Even when I worked in the business arena with my original degree, a BBA in Marketing, the calendar in my head revolved around the start of school as the start of a new year. It didn’t revolve around New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Those were just a change in writing the…
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Contributions to My Learning and the Learning Community
7/22/23 – Here is my rationale for scores of a 98 in 5313 and 5389 as I reflect on my participation in the learning communities as a part of these courses. First, I was able to share my learning in both courses’ through in-person discussions and online discussions. The work I was doing in 5313…
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Brain Plasticity
7/13/2023 – The science of brain plasticity and the creating of new neuron pathways that is a part of the research with Growth Mindset is fascinating to me. This is something that you can concretely teach to students and help them understand that getting the wrong answer triggers brain activity that getting the right answer…
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The Risks in Collaborative Discussion
7/12/2023 -In order to take risks in life and in learning, one has to be willing to move out of “the comfort zone,” and thus, willing to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. It is a part of growth mindset and the risk-taking that goes along with it (Dweck, 2006). If we want to be catalysts…
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Learning Networks
4/20/23 – I have recently joined these professional learning networks in order to grow my pedagogy: Classroom 20 – https://classroom20.com/ EDweb – https://home.edweb.net/ Google Educator’s Group of TEXAS – https://sites.google.com/view/geg-texas/home?pli=1 I am also a member of a Lamar learning community of fellow students in Applied Digital Learning in which we collaborate in the work of…
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Digital Learning and AI
04/18/23 – There is a lot to ponder with this ground breaking technology and digital learning. How it can expand a writer’s creativity vs. plagiarism is a controversial point among many that are being bounced around right now.
Wings and a Wand 