Author: Todd Nesloney

So life has been extra crazy lately and I have been trying desperately to update this blog!  Whew!  So here goes…. Last week was….interesting… Monday we didn’t have school.  On Tuesday I worked with the students setting goals, and calming any nerves in preparation for their Spring Benchmark that was to take place on Wednesday. So on…

Let me preface this post by saying that I was only at my campus on Monday, because Tuesday through Friday I was at TCEA (my state’s Technology Conference) and Saturday I attended my Region IV Math Conference.  You can read about my trip to those by following this link http://texasprincipal.org/index.php/texas-principals-education-help-support-team/entry/go-learn-tcea-and-region-iv But on Monday my students…

Another amazing week.  The week started out with some pretty incredible Skype activities (which you can read about in my previous post). In addition to Skyping with a class from Sweden and Olympic Gold Medalist Steve Mesler, our class was also fortunate enough to Skype with a college student from Venezuela. Now, I’ve had several…

Today was such an “epic” day in our class using Skype that I couldn’t wait til the end of the week to Blog about it! http://education.skype.com is a website I’ve found this year that I LOVE.  It allows teachers to find other educators or businesses who want to Skype and let’s them partner up.  So…

We had a lot of fun this week! We were off from school on Monday, so our Flip Classroom picked back up on Tuesday. For Tuesday-Thursday we began working on Probability and Predictions.  The kids loved this lesson because I prefaced it by telling them we were going to see who had a future in…

Had a blast this week! This week was filled with many exciting things…I was asked to write a chapter or two in a new Flipped Classroom book coming out in August, I’m THIS close to getting my children’s book published, I have another Flipped Classroom Webinar coming up in February (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5249898588)and more!Anyway, back to class…

I had such a blast this week! The kids came back on Tuesday and I could not have been more excited.  You see, one of my New Years Resolutions was to dress more professionally at school.  BUT I still needed to have some of my personality in it.  How was I dressing before?  Well I…

Another interesting week! So this week we took our first semester Math Benchmark.  I was VERY nervous, for several reasons…  – it was the exact same Benchmark as last fall, with only 2-3 questions increased for vigor. – it would be a REAL tell of how my students are doing with their first year of the…

This week was…interesting. It started out very rough.  There were a lot of issues at the beginning of the week with mis-communication, lack of communication, and so on and it caused a very rough start to the week. And my bad mood seemed to carry over several days, which was a bummer. We spent the…

Wow, talk about exhausted!  So after attending the Ron Clark Academy the week before (you can check out more about my trip at http://ninjaroadtrip.blogspot.com) there were quite a few things I wanted to do differently in my class this week.  And man did they make a difference!!! So for the first half of the week…

Another great week! We spent class time Monday working with my studnets on their new iPhone 4’s.  It’s surprising to me the lack of knowledge there is with this device.  I had assumed they kids would know what they were doing already, and they don’t!  It’s just more proof that we can’t assume kids know…

This week was probably our best week by far! My team and I decided to try a new schedule.  I teach 3 fifth grade math classes.  Instead of having a rotation where I teach all classes in one day we decided to try a schedule where on Monday I teach my homeroom Math ALL day….