Typepad is old and dated. Moving my writing to Medium!  https://lucygray.medium.com ..read more

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine While I have traveled to some amazing places for work (Finland, Portugal, Bahrain, Singapore etc), it’s always been somewhat of a solitary experience and I’ve always felt a twinge of guilt of leaving my family behind particularly as my kids have gotten older. I have chosen to embrace these opportunities not only for experiencing the world and learning about education systems outside the US, but to prove to myself that I can make my way through the world. I grew up seeing my mother not being able to handl ..read more

I'm in the midst of creating a technology and innovation plan for my school and I need your help! Key to the success of any such initiative is providing ample staff professional development opportunities. This can be a daunting challenge for any school or district as schools today are often thwarted by obstacles related to space, time, funding and institutional vision. To overcome these challenges, schools need to be creative in how they encourage professional learning given their particular circumstances. Additionally, it's important for schools to design professional learning experiences aro ..read more

https://www.flickr.com/photos/akasped/11808898455 Last night, I had an epiphany regarding the polar vortex that is descending upon much of the United States right now. On Monday, we had a significant snowfall here in Chicago and temperatures are rapidly dropping to historic lows. Tomorrow the temperature is expected to be around -13 F which is -25 C, but when accounting for the wind chill, it will feel like anywhere between -30 and -60 degrees (-35 to -50 C approximately). Yikes! Apparently, we should be getting used to this phenomenon. My school, along with most around here, have announ ..read more

Our curated global education resources have been updated and refreshed! Read more about this here. Find new collections containing information on projects, topics, and organizations on this page: http://bit.ly/GECresources. Note that you must be logged into the Global Education Conference Network to view! If you have resources to share with our community, post in our discussion forum or post to Twitter using the hashtag #globaled19. We are also preparing for our fourth annual Global Leadership Summit taking place on March 15th in Chicago, Illinois. This is the second time we’ve partnered with ..read more

In my role as the Director of Educational Technology at my new school, one of my goals is to facilitate connected teaching and learning in classrooms; I am more than happy to tap into my network and scaffold these experiences for my colleagues and our students. Earlier this year, I helped a fourth-grade class at my new school connect to other classrooms in order to participate in mystery location calls I also organized a video conference using Zoom and streaming live on YouTube with candy expert Jason Liebig (see below) for our Candy Around the World project. It was relatively easy to set up t ..read more

As long as I've been involved with educational technology, one of my favorite activities has been to curate resources for future reference and for the various populations I've served as an educator, consultant, and co-founder of GlobalEd Events and the Global Education Conference. I use Diigo to save Tweets, bookmark items with tags, to make lists for my current colleagues, and to contribute to collective groups. I grab articles of interest (sometimes from my feeds in Feedly) related to global education and save them in Evernote. Most recently, I've started curating collections in Wakelet,  a ..read more

I'm in the midst of creating a technology and innovation plan for my school and I need your help! Key to the success of any such initiative is providing ample staff professional development opportunities. This can be a daunting challenge for any school or district as schools today are often thwarted by obstacles related to space, time, funding and institutional vision. To overcome these challenges, schools need to be creative in how they encourage professional learning given their particular circumstances. Additionally, it's important for schools to design professional learning experiences aro ..read more