We took our last state test yesterday.   Today my classes moved beyond standardization and back into the the autonomous realm of genius hour. It’s good to be back. Each student in my classroom is at a different stage of…

This week was our 4th week of genius hour.  Most of the students are still excited about their projects, but some of them are running into some roadblocks. The major roadblock that we had this week was that the wi-fi…

I am going to be introducing genius hour to my students tomorrow.  I’m terrified, excited, and liberated all at the same time.  I’ve been researching doing a genius hour for the last few weeks and finally decided that this is…