Patrick Collins

Modern-day explorer, Educator, Web Developer, and Disney Fan.

Trekking through a mountain of endless Google searches, books, articles, StackOverflow posts, and colleagues, I have found my passion in learning everything I can know about anything. I believe that exploration and adventure is the heart of deep learning, and as a classroom teacher I design instructional content that positions students to learn to be an explorer. While primarily serving as the Director of Bands at Liberty Middle School in Cumming, GA, and I am grateful that I have the opportunity to work with professionals across the globe to instill just a little sense of adventure, exploration, and discovery into the next generation of modern-day explorers.

Articles

• Life-Long Professional Learning
• Authentic and Adaptive Assessment
• Individualized Path
• Flexible Educational Resources
• Dynamic Communication
• Expanded Collaboration
• Developing Growth and Mastery Mindset
• Developing Asset-Based Dispositions
• Strategies for Facilitating Learner Agency
• Developing Executive Function in the Instrumental Music Classroom
• Plan for Personalized Learning
• Mastery Teaching Philosophy
• Four Tech Tools for Personalized Learning
• To Static From Nothing