7/30/2013 - 7PM - Who are your education leaders/influencers and how do they affect you most in specific areas of your thinking & procedures in Education?
7/30/2013 - 1700CET - What is the real purpose of student assessment and can it be done without number or letter grades?
7/23/2013 - 7PM - If connectedness is so important to education, why haven't a majority of educators connected? How do we connect them?
7/23/2013 - 1700CET - With Common Core State Standards ready to go into place, should we now push for Standards Based Grading. Is SBG the way to go for everyone?
7/16/2013 - 7PM - Based on what you now know of Common Core, do you believe it will promote innovation and creative thinking, or stifle them?
7/16/2013 - 1700CET - How well are we preparing our students for what they will need to know after high school?
7/9/2013 - 7PM - Has Social Media and connectedness made a difference in Education? If so, how? If not, why not?
7/9/2013 - 1700CET - With #ISTE13 behind us can we now reflect here on what makes an effective presenter, or keynote, and an overall Education Conference?
7/2/2013 - 7PM - What would a successful model of professional development for educators look like?
7/2/2013 - 1700CET - Is it possible for innovation and differentiation to fit into a curriculum stressing standardization?
6/25/2013 - 7PM - Have you explored or used games for learning? What do you see as the potential benefits or pitfalls of using games for learning?
6/25/2013 - 1700CET - Is the idea of integrating curriculum an idea that still has a place in education today?
6/18/2013 - 7PM - What is it you could tell your colleagues who claim Twitter to be a frivolous sideshow for mindless interaction & little social impact?
6/11/2013 - 7PM - Differentiation; are teachers in your school trained, supported, and equipped to practice it adequately?
6/11/2013 - 1700CET - What is the result of educators not fully understanding the differences between summative and formative assessments?
6/4/2013 - 7PM - What should be included in a summer PD program? Anything goes!
6/4/2013 - 1700CET - What percentage of instruction should be delivered through the methods of Direct instruction and lecture?
5/28/2013 - 7PM - How important is it to teach Critical Thinking and how do we do it?
5/28/2013 - 1700CET - What is an Edcamp and what are the differences that it can make in my professional development?
5/21/2013 - 7PM - How would allowing 20% of your week to be used for student directed learning (pursuing their interest) affect your goal in teaching?
5/14/2013 - 7PM - Parents play a huge role in a child's education. What are the most effective ways to educate and involve parents in the process?
5/14/2013 - 1600CET - Are Social Media and the use of technology in general gaining more acceptance in your district or education in general?
5/7/2013 - 7PM - Children are anxious learners in the early grades of education. What are the factors that turn kids off to learning as they get older?
5/7/2013 - 1600CET - What is the BIG Shift in education that everyone is looking for? Is there one big idea that can positively affect education? If not why?
4/30/2013 - 7PM - School culture has positives and negatives,what specific elements of your school's culture are keepers & which should be eliminated?
4/23/2013 - 7PM - Is there a growing gap between Connected and Unconnected educators that should concern us as a system of educators?
4/23/2013 - 1600CET - Do we as educators have a responsibility to share with other educators? Are we collectively better off then we are separately?
4/16/2013 - 7PM - Why the push for technology in education? What does technology enable in education that could not be done without it?
4/16/2013 - 1600CET - If students are to have a say in their education, what is it they are to have a say about? Who could enable that to happen?
4/9/2013 - 7PM - If creation is the highest form of learning, how do we shift education from content delivery to content creation?
4/2/2013 - 7PM - Why should we consider or resist teacher evaluations being tied to students' standardized test results?
4/2/2013 - 1600CET - What are the advantages/disadvantages that connected educators have over those educators who choose not to connect?
3/19/2013 - 7PM - The Flipped Classroom, a trend or a lasting solution? What are specific positives and negatives of the Flipped Model?
3/19/2013 - 1600CET - If formative assessment is designed to gauge the effectiveness of the lesson & the teacher, should we use it in a student's grade?
3/12/2013 - 7PM - We tell students it's not about the grades it's about the learning and then base all placement and advancement on grades. How do we break the cycle?
3/12/2013 - 1600CET - Two possible directions in education might be content delivery and content creation. Which should be emphasized today?
3/5/2013 - 7PM - What are the essential qualities of leadership that teachers look for in specific administrators; Department Chairs, Principals, & Superintendents, et al.?
3/5/2013 - 1700CET - What are the real decisions left to educators about technology in education?
2/26/2013 - 7PM - What should a well-designed mentoring program for new teachers look like?
2/26/2013 - 1700CET - Do we need to continue to house students in grades according to the age of the student?
2/19/2013 - 7PM - Is creativity the next necessary literacy?
2/19/2013 - 1700CET - If innovation drives us forward, how do we address innovation in our current system of teaching and learning?
2/12/2013 - 7PM - Does Professional Development for educator's in its present form today adequately address teachers' needs and relevancy in education?
2/5/2013 - 7PM - How do we consider time differently to rebuild school schedules & calendars to maximize learning?
2/5/2013 - 1700CET - How do we train educators to teach in programs like BYOD and 1:1?
1/29/2013 - 7PM - What are the specific ways educators use to collaborate to advance their professional development?
1/29/2013 - 1700CET - As the paddle gave way to detention is it time for detention to give way to an alternative form of discipline? What would that look like?
1/22/2013 - 7PM - More and more studies are cropping up with a negative slant on homework. Are we holding onto homework because of culture or habit or a belief in it?
1/22/2013 - 1700CET - What specific forms of collaboration do you use, and specifically how does collaboration impact your profession?
1/15/2013 - 7PM - Teacher morale & self esteem is viewed by many to be at an all-time low. What are specific ways that we can build them back up?
1/15/2013 - 1700CET - Should we build time into a busy school schedule to allow innovative thinking or pursuit of passion-based learning?
12/18/2012 - 7PM - Once, the classroom was considered the place for learning. How do we define learning environment today, and how do we best utilize it?
12/18/2012 - 1800CET - Business people & politicians insist on comparing schools to business. Are business strategies applicable in learning environments?
12/11/2012 - 7PM - Teachers often say they need supportive administrators. What are the qualities and actions of a supportive Administrator?
12/11/2012 -1800CET - Let's define what a school culture is and discuss its positive and negative effects specific to your school.
11/27/2012 - 7PM - How should teachers deal with colleagues who are comfortable with 19th century methods and punitive measures for non-compliant students?
11/27/2012 - 1800CET - What alternatives should educators be supporting to replace high stakes testing?
11/20/2012 - 7PM - How are teachers prepared for teaching with differentiated instruction & is this preparation adequate?
11/20/2012 - 1800 CET - What can administrators do to make faculty meetings a positive experience & useful contribution to education in a school?
11/13/2012 - 7PM - How is social media used professionally by you and how do we convey that to educators who see social media as a useless gimmick?
11/13/2012 - 1800CET - What should a report card look like as we move forward in time?
11/6/2012 - 7PM - If we were to list all the needs for education reform what arguments do we make for our two top reforms? What are they and why fix them first?
11/6/2012 - 1800CET - Has the acceptance and use of technology tools for learning taken significant hold in your school? In education overall?
10/30/2012 - 7PM - How do the technological tools for learning support Bloom's highest form of learning, creation?
10/30/2012 - 1800CET - Why does the unconference model of Edcamps appeal to so many teachers as a preferred method of Professional Development?
10/23/2012 - 7PM - What is the best way for technology people to approach professional development of academic subject teachers?
10/23/2012 - 1800CET - What is it that educators are supposed to be preparing kids for?
10/9/2012 - 7PM - How should we prepare educators & students for a system of blended learning which seems to be a mounting trend in education?
10/9/2012 - 1800CET - What are specific ways in which administrators can support teachers, & teachers can support administrators?
10/2/2012 - 1800CET - What is it that educators are supposed to be preparing kids for?
9/25/2012 - 1800CET - How much of our lessons in edu are Direct Instruction or lecture and is that the best use of the methods at hand to produce thinkers?
9/19/2012 - 7PM - What organization or individual should lead in education reform?
9/18/2012 - 1800CET - What is your opinion on the number one reason education reform is being blocked?