Day 126: Blog Reading Challenge

Daily Blog Challenge Day 126/365

I wrote in a previous post about paying it forward.  Finding acts I appreciate and finding ways to perform these acts for others.  I committed myself to a new challenge: reading seven posts a week and commenting on at least two of them each week (either through Twitter or on the Blog itself).  I am setting up this post as a way to track my progress and to share great posts.

*Update:  I find myself two weeks behind, so I am using a Snow Day from school to play catchup, so it may not always be seven blogs a week, but the ultimate goal is to read more blogs and articles. 

Which blogs would you recommend?  Thank you for reading.

Week of January 6th
1.  Grades Do More Harm Than Good by Chris Crouch (Commented through Twitter)
2.  What Do Music Teachers Do On Snow Days? by Kelly Riley
3.  The Orff-Shulwerk Classroom by Eric L. Young (Commented on the Homemade Tubano Post)
4.  I Have Been Using Facebook WRONG All This Time... By Aaron Maurer (AKA Coffeechug) 
5.  Standards Based Learning and Standards Based Grading In The Trenches (Part 5) By Garnet Hillman
6.  Aurasma in the Music Classroom by Cherri Herring
7.  How Do We Lead Towards A Better Assessment System? by Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

Week of January 13th

1. How To Turn A Negative Consequence Into A Positive Classroom Management Strategy by Larry Ferlazzo (Commented through Twitter)

2.  Have You Ever Taught A Class That Got "Out Of Control"? by Larry Ferlazzo

3.  Being An EDU-Parent by Rafranz Davis (Commented)

4.  The 6 Essential Characteristics People Look For In A Leader by Ryan Daly

5.  The Power of Appreciation by Joy Kirr

6.  Gamification is PBL by Josh Gauthier (Commented through Twitter)

7.  Educators-Please Embody the Spirit of Open Source by Josh Gauthier

Week of January 20th

1.  My #EDCampMadWI Experience by Darin Johnston

2.  Inspiration Comes From Crazy Places by Darin Johnston

3.  When The Pipes Burst and You Are Left With A True Mess by Aaron Maurer (AKA Coffeechug)

4.  Mental Toughness: 20 Way To Get It by Coach Roberts  (Commented)

5.  Why The Duke Men's Basketball Program Succeeds by Coach Roberts

6.  Tech Tools for the Gamified Classroom by Michael Matera (Commented through Twitter)

7.  The Path To Mastery by Joshua Medcalf

Week of January 27th

1.  What You Say Doesn't Matter, It's What They Hear That Matters by Joshua Medcalf (Commented through Twitter)

2.  Sam Berns' Courage Offers 4 Lessons in Leadership by Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

3.  7 Apps for Teaching Coding by Anna Adam

4.  Teach Like A Pirate In The Music Room by Robert Lewis

5.  Lego Music Maker by Eric Young (Ruby Boyden) (Commented through Twitter)

6.  Happy New Year! by Ruby Boyden

7.  A Recorder That I Used To Know by Eric Young (Commented through Twitter)

Week of February 3rd
1.  Madison's Memorable Moments by Rik Rowe
2.  Motivation in a Standards Based Culture by Garnet Hillman
3.  New Flipped Classroom Section by Jerry Bradley
4.  It's Monday, What Are You Reading? by Shannon Clark
5.  On Snow Days by Joe Guarr
6.  How Big Is Too Big, When It Comes To Your PLN? by Scott Totten (Commented through Twitter)
7.  Why 4BetterEducatio? by Scott Totten (Commented through Twitter)

Week of February 10th

1.  TI:ME and Minnesota by Chris Russell

2.  Looking To The Left, Gazing To The Right and Always Staring Forward by Catie Dwinal (Commented through Twitter)

3.  What's You Aura? By Amy Burns

4.  How To E-mail A Principal by Principal Berry

5.  The Burden of Fraudulence by William Stribling  (Commented through Twitter)

6.  Every Adult Should Retake Middle School Civics Class by William Stribling

7.  Truth, Beauty and Goodness: Our Aesthetics by William Stribling

Week of February 17th

1.  5 Rehearsal Secrets Every Music Teacher Should Know by Matthew Stidham

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