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Mike Zavada
Aug 10, 20144 min read
The Teacher As Real Estate Agent, the Best Occupy Locations in Their Students&#
Maybe deep inside I fancy that I could become a real estate agent. Or maybe, its because we currently have a rental home on the market...
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Mike Zavada
Jul 13, 20145 min read
The Case For Case Studies: 4 Reasons Every Teacher Should Incorporate Them in Lesson Plans
image taken with permission from Wikimedia Commons, copyright expired “‘No, no! The adventures first,’ said the Gryphon…’explanations...
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Mike Zavada
Jun 29, 20146 min read
The New Moneyball: How Historical Analysis Might Be Used by Teams to Get Ahead
This post has been updated with new content on July 1, 2014 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ...
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Mike Zavada
Jun 5, 20145 min read
I’ll Trade You for Your Pudding (but if you won’t, my Pringles are still a solid B.A.T.N
It recently occurred to me that something at first so natural to kids at the cafe lunch table in elementary school tends to be so absent...
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Mike Zavada
May 26, 20146 min read
The Long Row Home: A First Year Principal’s Reflections on his Time at the Helm
The journey started here. This morning I had one of the more enjoyable moments a father can have. My five year old son Zeke wanted to...
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Mike Zavada
May 5, 20145 min read
People of the Book: 21st Century Summer Reading
Picture taken from science fiction.com posted by Lauren-Rocks In doing some research for a companion guide to our school’s summer...
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Mike Zavada
Apr 14, 20143 min read
Are You Ready for Success?
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller famously said “Life moves...
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Mike Zavada
Mar 29, 20147 min read
Getting Lost: 4 Educational Lessons
Amazing Grace, I once was lost, but now I’m found; was blind, but now I see. We don’t get lost anymore. I heard sports and popular...
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Mike Zavada
Mar 26, 20147 min read
On the Hunt: the 5 Learning Opportunities Gained Hunting Wild Turkey
Saturday I went hunting for the first time. As I have written about before, I am fascinated by Southern culture and of late have become...
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Mike Zavada
Jan 6, 20142 min read
How Going Back After Semester Break is Like the Space Shuttle
If your family is like mine, there is a certain uneasiness you might be experiencing as you prepare to have your child return to school...
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Mike Zavada
Dec 31, 20134 min read
How Going Hunting for the First Time is Like the Flipped Classroom
Having lived in the South now for parts of two decades and after having been married to a Southern girl for eleven, I’m starting to get...
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Mike Zavada
Dec 2, 20135 min read
Facing Fear and Slaying Exams
I have been meeting with some of the seniors the past few weeks reflecting on their quotes for the yearbook. Several had agonized over...
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Mike Zavada
Oct 14, 20134 min read
Six Guardrails for Tech: Ways to help our kids discipline themselves with technology.
In the previous edition of Dewey’s Dimes, we explored Maggie Jackson’s work Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age...
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Mike Zavada
Oct 13, 20133 min read
Distracted, Dazed and Confused: How Much Tech is Too Much for Our Students?
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the annual Paideia/CESA Conference in Dallas, Texas. Each year the conference focuses school...
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Mike Zavada
Sep 30, 20133 min read
Turning Headaches of Homecoming into (Wayside) Teaching Moments
May the Odds be ever in your favor. This year’s theme is “the Homecoming Games.” (this post was originally publish in October 2013. It...
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Mike Zavada
Sep 15, 20134 min read
6 Signs of an Outstanding Faculty
This weekend I began my weekly e-mail to the faculty while taking in some rays on the beach. Each week I challenge our faculty in a few...
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