As part of my doctoral program, I was asked to conduct a program evaluation of an existing program in our own school district. I chose the Goochland High School Senior Project, which was launched when the new Goochland High School was opened…
When I worked for the Virginia Department of Education, I did a staff training on podcasting basics. For this, I created a SlideDoc to accompany the Zoom session. Understanding, Creating, and Distributing Digital Content Adapted from Podcasting Basics (2021), by John Hendron,…
This post documents content that was presented at the 2019 Virginia Society for Technology in Education conference. After being named an Apple Distinguished School, Goochland Middle School was proffered an opportunity to come to California and to learn how to apply action…
In the spring of 2018, our superintendent in Goochland challenged us to think about pulling a “prank” he’d seen another division do for the August convocation with all of our staff. At that district, the superintendent and his staff showed up late,…
In 2013, we started our school division’s one-to-one program with iPads. It was a soft launch with three grade levels. And we were using Apple iPads which required the use of Apple IDs. At the time, the way to deploy these devices…
In 2014 when I was promoted to Director of Innovation & Strategy, the development of our school division’s strategic plan became a new responsibility. I still had the role after those six years were up, and I led the effort to develop…
While I was Director of Innovation & Strategy for Goochland County Public Schools, I oversaw a re-make of the high school’s media center. The school had been built in 2001 and that year I taught two of my advanced classes while transitioning…
This was a description of the program we’d cultivated in Goochland County with the Goochland Education Foundation to support deeper learning with 21st century skills by providing a local grant program to support project-based learning at the 2019 Virginia School Boards Association…
When folks asked us about our G21 project in Goochland, we had to confess that it wasn’t something we invented overnight. Like many things, it developed over time into something bigger and better. G21 would morph into Strategic Innovation Grants, for instance.…
