Moore.Instruction.23

  Hi all! So, as a reminder, I am a teacher in an undisclosed district here in the great Houston, Texas.  I wanted to give you a bit a context before I began sharing this story of "creepiness."  I have taught now for seven years, including COVID years and have worked at two districts. Simply put, education is a bit of a mess right now. There is, in my opinion, a misalignment between vision, mission, goal, and execution. That is where the scope creep seeps in. Scope creep occurs when a project acquires new, unauthorized features that potentially disrupt a project's budget, timeline, scale, or other major points (Larson,2009). Out of an abundance of caution and respect, the district, school, and parties involved have all been made up, although the story is true. I work as a math teacher at Tamela Mann Middle Charter School. It is one of the most difficult middle schools to get into in the city since the school provides high-level advanced placement courses and national...

 Having tools to help manage projects is essential to project managers and all parties involved.  The overall point of these tools is not to be a crutch but rather to help streamline most of the nuances involved in the project.  The two tools I want to present are Monday.com and figma.com.     Figma.com is a user-friendly customizable board. Figma helps teams see the larger picture by allowing them to use customizable widgets and other tools to create maps.  By allowing for the creation of the “blueprint” of the project, different teams can see the start and end goals of the project and add any input to the blueprint.  I use Figma to help visualize large projects so I can see the “flow” of the project and the minor components of each project.     The next resource that I would like to share is Monday.com. I know that Monday.com is advertised often, but it is an awesome tool for project managers. Monday.com sets up project mana...