Welcome to Coach Skelton's Cyber Classroom

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This video is a reminder to me that sometimes people just need an invitation to get them to where you want them to be. I think this applies to education in many ways. For instance, when teachers sometimes give up on students who they think "just can't cut…

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Can we actually change our schools without changing our communities? That's the question that I keep asking myself. To me, no matter what we do, we have to first change the culture of our entire community before we can properly change the culture of our school districts. But is their a possibility that we can do both at the same time?



If your students come from a community of people who suffer from an entitlement mentality, why would you wonder why the kids you teach act the way they… Continue

A little more than 10 years ago, as I sat behind my first computer, if you would have told me that people would be conducting and attending meetings on computers, I would have laughed at you. Heck, you were lucky if you could align all of the dots up and create a "picture." Now, we can view live television from our computers (that now sit on our laps or maybe even in our hands) and nobody can live without them. It is truly amazing how quickly technology has taken over our lives.



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