Ken Toomey
“The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.”
- Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort
Fifth grade at Greenlodge Elementary School in Dedham, MA
Bio
Ken Toomey is a fifth grade teacher at the Greenlodge School in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1990. He has been a member of the district Professional Development Committee, Science Committee, and the Aspiring Leaders Academy. For a few years he taught a class, “The Art of Science”, which district colleagues could take for graduate credit. An award winning singer [Dedham Idol 2007], Ken also has a listing on the Internet Movie Database.
Achievements
- Introduced playlists into his classroom as a way to provide differentiation and choice
- Coached four early adopters on BL/PL
- Piloted passion projects for students at his school
- Fuse MA Coordinator for Cohort 2
- Co-presented a workshop session on effective peer coaching at Medfield Design Your Learning Day and MassCUE, 2019
- Thought partnering with school colleagues on personalized learning
MyFuseMA Project
Fellows tackle something that matters to them and find a way to leverage technology and/or tenets of personalized learning to extend and continue the work they began in Fuse in their home District.