when you find yourself a school you can be yourself in, you are better able to provide the โจJOYโจ in learning for your students- we are teaching for the future here and I am so much better for it
I am able to continue to grow and foster communities of learning through gaming and provide my students with a network of people to connect with and learn from. All of this is due in large part to my wife who pushes me continuously to learn more about the world of gaming and SEL
Iโve had colleagues support and join in on this endeavor in order to expand it. Today, I am part of a group of an amazing community of educators in Esports through the North America Scholastic Esports Federation, and because of this unique opportunity
During the summer of 2021 I signed up my students to play for the free High School Esports League tournaments (https://t.co/FvzVQK6a6C) and they loved it- I knew
there was something special in gaming and decided to continue to persevere it.
should continue to meet virtually, we competed in smash bros against my wifeโs school (@game_n_teach ) we streamed ourselves playing โIt Takes Twoโ all of this so that we could keep our students engaged and happy and most of all hopeful for the time we could come back togetherโฆ
When we were forced to learn from home at the height of the Pandemic, I worried about those very same kids and how it would put a huge halt to their social-emotional learning which had helped them so much with their academics. During that time period, my game club crew decided we
Back in 2018 I decided to start an after school โstrategy board games clubโ in order to provide extra time for my small class students to continue spending time together laughing and strategizing over good board games since lunch time was just never enough timeโฆ