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Innovation Takes Time
Innovation doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a process that takes time. Revision is something that I am all too familiar with as a writing...
April Gonzales
Dec 15, 20194 min read


Choosing a Voice In My Work
Learning has been redefined. I say this as a student who has been the typical A student who did what her teachers told her to do and...
April Gonzales
Dec 8, 20196 min read


Digital Citizenship
This course was filled with many great opportunities to learn from and has been enlightening that corrected my perspective about concepts...
April Gonzales
Sep 29, 20193 min read


Pains of Cyberbullies
Cyberbullying is a prominent problem in the digital age. The effects of cyberbullying don’t just affect the physical wellbeing of the...
April Gonzales
Sep 22, 20193 min read


Copyright Rules and Insight
Learning about copyright rules, plagiarism, and fair use rules is not for the faint of heart. These laws and protections are the...
April Gonzales
Sep 15, 20193 min read


Positive Digital Footprint: A Reflection
Becoming a digital citizenship has a lot of unknown criterion and information behind it. What this means is that there are unknown parts...
April Gonzales
Sep 8, 20193 min read


Digital Citizenship: A Reflection
Being a digital citizenship has some commonalities as to being a citizenship in a community. With certain criterions, digital citizenship...
April Gonzales
Sep 1, 20192 min read


Online Course Reflection
The instructional theory that best fits Mastering Character Analysis course is both the constructivist theory and connectivist theory. In...
April Gonzales
Aug 18, 20193 min read


When you fixate on the finish line
Sometimes.... Well.. All the time, when I have a task that needs to be completed, I fixate on the goal to finish it. That means that all...
April Gonzales
Aug 11, 20192 min read


Oh Technology, Never a Dull Moment
As I was working on my developing my online classroom this week, I ran into the biggest problem ever. My district deleted my access to...
April Gonzales
Aug 4, 20192 min read


Online Course Creations
While creating the outline for my online course for the first 50% of my course, I had to think about where I would consider the halfway...
April Gonzales
Jul 28, 20193 min read


April Gonzales
May 5, 20190 min read


Effective PL
Step 1 Step 2 I view professional learning as an opportunity to grow for the better. Growing is selfless and allows you to be better for...
April Gonzales
Mar 17, 20193 min read


Having Confidence for Crucial Conversations
As a person that has always been "behind the scenes" type of person, I've always stayed quiet and voiced my opinion when I was directly...
April Gonzales
Feb 24, 20194 min read


Developing Goals and Building Success
When I think about our students and the ultimate goal that we have as a team. We want to build confidence in a student's ability to learn....
April Gonzales
Feb 17, 20196 min read


Influencing New Innovation Ideas
When I first developed my innovation proposal, I thought that was my method of influencing my academic coordinator and principal. Little...
April Gonzales
Feb 10, 20192 min read


My Why, How and What
Why? I believe students need opportunities in school to grow and build confidence in their learning through their interest. How? To do...
April Gonzales
Jan 27, 20192 min read


Creating a Growth Mindset Plan
Growth mindset is a process. It's a lengthy and slow process that takes a lot of patience to maintain. It's a process that should be...
April Gonzales
Dec 21, 20184 min read


My Philosophy on Learning
A few years ago, I had a late day at work grading a pile of papers. As I was reading through those papers, I had a student leave her...
April Gonzales
Dec 2, 20183 min read


Creating a New Culture of Learning
This week as I took a break from our Thanksgiving preparations, I watched a quick documentary from Netflix’s Chef’s Table about a pastry...
April Gonzales
Nov 25, 20185 min read
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