Open your virtual classroom door

At the Durham Elementary School Administrators conference last year our keynote speaker, George Couros, asked the question, “What if every teacher tweeted one thing a day that they did in their classroom to a school hashtag, and they took five minutes to read each others’ tweets?  What impact would that have on learning and school culture?”  Recently on Twitter, someone I follow reposted that quote, and I mentioned two DDSB schools that have done an incredible job of embracing the idea – Glen Street PS and Beau Valley PS.

We have hundreds of educators in the DDSB using Twitter – at least 185 of whom are included on this list, in case you’d like to follow them.  So what makes Glen Street PS and Beau Valley PS so special that I wanted to point them out?  There are so many teachers sharing what goes on in their classrooms each…