Category: Classroom Practices

  • Colin Powell: Decision Making and Accountability

    Secretary Powell’s principles about decision-making and accountability empower students and educators, fostering a “can-do” mindset and promoting students’ agency in making decisions, thereby enhancing personal growth and autonomy.

  • Colin Powell: Resilience and Attitude

    Part 1: Embracing Resilience and a Positive Attitude in the Classroom In the realm of education, the wisdom of Secretary Colin Powell holds true: “It ain’t as bad as you think! It will look better in the morning.” The classroom is no stranger to challenges, but maintaining a positive outlook, even in the face of…

  • Monthly Mindfulness: Colin Powell

    As we kick off February, teachers are moving past the reflect, reset, and rolling through the plan for the second half of the school year. The mid-year reset is a critical time for educators as they aim to get students back on track towards graduation or sustain ongoing success. One excellent resource for initiating change…

  • Creating Animated Backgrounds with Adobe Express

    The author transforms Zoom backgrounds using Adobe Express, creating personalized, AI-generated imagery and ambiance loop videos.

  • New Image Prompts for January

    I’ve been working with new ideas this month. Trying some mixed media ideas with quilted animal images, geometric stylings, old cartography art schemes, and distressed protraits. These are just a couple of ideas from the past few weeks. Mostly I’m running generative tests on Midjourney v6 to see what is different from past iterations.

  • Adobe Firefly Creativity Prompt: School Mascot Reimagined

    Take time this year to learn how to use Adobe Firefly. The best ethical image generation prompt available to educators. In addition to it being amazing and following copyright regulations for generative AI, it is part of the Adobe Express program and already works with your district Microsoft and Google SSO. Be sure to check…