Mr. Gillespie's Office

“I don’t like history. I never will. But I liked this class.” “You’re loud (in a good way).” “Too much lecturing.” “The homewor...

Yesterday, Eric Sheninger posted a blog entitled Creativity and Why it Matters . The Adobe Education study suggests creative thinking shoul...

After much deliberation here are my edublog nominations. My professional life has been greatly influenced by all of these amazing teachers, ...

Homework’s value and purpose has spawned several personal conversations/debates in the last couple of months—too man...

--> Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending my 3 rd edcamp ; this one in Baltimore. Approximately, 70 educators from as far ...

Inspired by Angela Maier’s posting on 12 Things Kids Wantfrom Their Teachers and her participation in a recent #ptchat...

As part of our Kettle Run edcamp ( read: prior posts ) , we created a hour-long parent-teacher roundtable. As the organizer of the roundtabl...