A few months ago I had a sinus infection. The doctor asked if I had considered having surgery. A few friends recommended that I try getting rid of wheat and dairy. I’ve been trying to take gluten/wheat and dairy from my diet. It has been challenging and interesting. Another friend also recommended The Plan: Eliminate […]
Author: jhino2nd
For Such a Time as This
I started this post in January and now it is April. Time to finish it and post it! It’s hard to believe that we are in the second week of a New Year(okay,maybe 3rd week). It has been 9 months since I last wrote on this blog! It is time to get back into the […]
Empowering People to be Independent
It has been way too long since I’ve written a post and this post will be different than most of my previous posts. During our spring break I had the privilege to travel to London, England with my husband in a tour group, Cancer Philosophy Clinic Tour in England. Not the typical tour or vacation […]
Come Fly With Me
For years I have mostly flown economy class. This has included many domestic and international flights. I have had a few occasions to fly business and although it was nice I never made a connection to my teaching and classroom. Recently my husband has taken me with him on 2 business trips and both times […]
How Do We Help? Part 3
Flat Classroom in Yokohama finished today, but it is far from ended. You can see an incredible final student presentation here. The videos are awesome and awe inspiring. What passion and desire to make a change. While some of the students were furiously working on this presentation and videos the rest of us continued our […]
How Can We Help? Part 2
Day 2 of Flat Classroom 2013 is ended. WOW! How our day began! Such energy and fabulous ideas of how to use Web 2.0 tools to collaborate, create and change our world. We started the day with Future Learning Action Talks(Flats). Alan Levine began by sharing several amazing and inspiring stories including how and why the […]
“How can we help each other?”
That is the theme of Flat Classroom 2013 at Yokohama International School in Japan. Rebekah Madrid ended our first day by challenging us to think about “How can we help each other?” Flat Classroom is a unique conference where educators and students come together to connect, collaborate and change the world we live in using Web […]
Google Apps for Education Summit
Just spent 2 incredible days of learning and connecting at Google Apps for Education Summit Tokyo. The theme was Passion, Play and Purpose. How do we bring those into the classroom? The Keynote speakers: Rushton Hurley, Jim Sill and Wendy Gorton were very inspiring. Also enjoyed sessions by each of them and a few other […]
More Like Him
I was asked to share a testimony at the KBF(my church) ladies’ retreat this past weekend. I would like to share what I said, and a bit more, since it wasn’t written at the time. What does it mean to me to be a Christian? What do I want to look like, sound like, act […]
What is Good Teaching?
This week I begin participating in a book club discussion on teaching matters most, A School Leader’s Guide to IMPROVING CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION by Thomas M. McCann, Alan C. Jones and Gail A Aronoff. This week we will be discussing chapter 1 “What are common practices in schools?” I’d like to share some of my take-aways, […]