Try these this year...

I am encouraged by the number of educators who are blogging and tweeting (and writing) about the principles they have found to guide effective education. These teachers share the big ideas that guide their work rather than the minutia of their practice. (Unfortunately many of our colleagues want those minutia, as they have the mis-guided belief that if they replicate another's methods, they will replicate another's success.)

Anyways... Here is Advice worth following:

blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/08/how-to-turn-your-classroom-into-an-idea-factory#more-23407

- Dr. Gary Ackerman