A Teacher’s Notebook…
Slightly Unhinged.
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I’d go back. For sure. In fact, I’d love to enter this one in the This Is BANANAS! Tournament of Champions.
Okay. Decent. Not great.
But I ate the whole box. Not all at once. It took about a month.
Over the past year, I've applied for 9 positions. All of them were teacher roles focused on Technology Integration and Digital Learning. All of them supported teachers and were not direct classroom teaching; more professional development, coaching, modeling, and training.
The largest school districts in the country are banning student-facing AI tools. There's a divide among teachers about whether students should use AI, what for, and at what grade levels and content areas.
It’s almost too perfect. Here’s me restarting the blog and wanting to add a crazy That’s Bananas part to distract me from education for a bit this summer.
That 5-minute conversation led to two meetings with her leadership team, three hours of all-staff professional development, and co-teaching, modeling, and coaching with several of her teachers.
Y'ALL.
Glazed donut. Sliced in half. Scoop of vanilla ice cream on the bottom. Layer in some banana pudding — I'm not even sure how they pulled that off. Put the top back on.
I've had an AI tab open in my browser for almost the entire year.
Sometimes it's on my school laptop. Sometimes my Chromebook. Often it's an app on my phone.
I’ve decided it’s time to really dig back into writing. I’ve missed. Actually, I’ve got plenty of half started thoughts…