By The Collab Lab Team Today we had the final Lead Learners meeting of the school year.  We started off by activating prior knowledge and...

By The Collab Lab Team: Yesterday a team from Bremen HS came to visit the Collab Lab after participating in our webinar on " Collabo...

By The CollabLab Team Today the CollabLab team had the opportunity to present a webinar to the Illinois Principals Association / Ed Leade...

By The CollabLab Team Yest erday 's focus in Lead Learners was based on these two essential questions: 1.  How do we create condi...

By Rita Sayre You poured yourself into creating an experiential lesson or forum, yet you had some students who missed it.   How can you...

by Kirsten Fletcher As teachers, we have a tendency to devote all our energy to planning lessons, meeting with students, grading, etc. and...

By Linda Ashida Today we carried on our tradition of our teacher-led professional learning with our January Institute Day:  "Making C...

By Kim Miklusak I am thankful in our district that we have the opportunity to be reimbursed for most--if not all--of the cost of attending...

Colleen Mullaney 's regular junior math class worked on a self-reflection document before the end of the quarter.  On the front side of ...

Period 1 The second Peer Observation Day got off to a great start in Kristen Guth's freshman english class. Students were self-assessi...

By Joe Bush In February of 2015, I was fortunate enough to attend the John Maxwell Team Leadership Certification Program.  It was the be...

By Kim Miklusak and Linda Ashida The other day on Twitter someone shared the idea of what if every teacher tweeted one idea or moment from...

By Kim Miklusak We have all perhaps seen a variation of this chart during our teaching career: phases of first-year teachers' attitude...

By Mark Heintz On Monday, April 6, 2015, our district had an in-service day.  In the new contract signed last year, our Education Associat...

This Monday the CollabLab will help facilitate a portion of our school's In-Service Day focusing on instructional technology. First, w...

By Kim Miklusak This week we had a series of pull-out meeting times in our school and district as noted in the various blog posts and twee...

By Mark Heintz How do you stay energized as a teacher?  Stressors emotionally drain us as teachers throughout the day.  In the midwest, it...

Peer Observation Groups started up today!  Thank you to everyone who presented and everyone who was able to stop down. 5th period: The POG...

Today the Collab Blog welcomes guest blogger Paul Kelly, principal of Elk Grove HS.  He can be reached @EGPrinciPaul   A wise man once ...