Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. We want every student to reap the benefits of becoming effective writers.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

The person doing the work in a classroom is the person doing the learning. That means they need to be able to flex their metacognitive muscles by setting goals, tracking and monitoring their progress, reflecting on their learning, and assessing their own work. That belief has informed the way I define blended learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Courses about Student Mental Health Strategies for Addressing Student Anxiety With the strategies and interventions you learn in this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment where students can successfully cope with stressors and instead focus on learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

assess success at completion. How to get started. All accounts include a dashboard to track courses taken/being taken, certificates earned, modules completed in each class, which classes in your overall plan are completed, how long you’ve spent working on the class, and more. Student-led Classroom Management.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Under these requirements, special education students should be in the same classrooms as their peers to the maximum appropriate extent. This requires some training for educators on how to create more inclusive classrooms. Here are three strategies for educators to support inclusive learning: 1.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

UDL and Opportunity Youth. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

2) Video - Personalizing Learning at Oregon High School Learn how Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin uses technology to personalize the learning experience. Hear from teachers, administrators, and students about how they are giving youth a voice in guiding their educational journey to ensure that they are learning at their own pace.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Leveraging creativity in the classroom helps students develop a deeper understanding and make cross-curricular connections. Recently, EdSurge podcast host Carl Hooker discussed with field experts how educators can foster creativity for college and career readiness. So how can we adjust learning experiences to cultivate more creating?

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

I've thought about opening it up widely—write a historical novelette (using primary sources, of course), create a sculpture, write a song—but, again, I have no idea how to grade something like that, considering the wide range of talent that my students likely will have. Assess Creativity Ok, so how do you grade these creative assignments?

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 24, 2023

MIND partnered with edWeb, a professional online community for educators, to develop this webinar series to encourage math achievement for English learners in the classroom. English learners (ELs) make up one out of every 10 students and are the fastest-growing group in public school classrooms. In total, ELs in U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Simultaneously, educators needed to identify what content students needed, how to organize it and how to help students access it. Was it best for students to access material on a dashboard and, if so, should it be housed on one platform, such as Google Classroom, or spread across a few?

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 18, 2024

I get asked A LOT in trainings about AI detection tools and I am glad that we’re following the lead of universities in not recommending its use in the classroom. Within the time frame of one full day of training, I can get teachers to think about assessing prompts over products. Which is a start to the shift that is needed.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This silent film sheds light on the subtle ways that creativity can be absent in the classroom. When I watched Alike for the first time, I appreciated how the film used color, expression, and music to tell the story. How often do you engage in creative activities at school?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

There are so many aspects of an architect’s job that serve as important reminders for us as educators about how to approach our design work. Ultimately, the person doing the work in the classroom is the person learning, so we must design learning experiences that position the student at the center of learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These projects are created around Understanding by Design (UbD) principles to emphasize STEM education and have tools to help students customize, evaluate, assess and create portfolios. When you dig in and see how easy it is (and how powerful) you will be excited! So, first, select a project and we’ll customize it from there. .

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This, combined with the reality that designing lessons with a new instructional model may feel scary or daunting, can make it challenging for math teachers to understand how to use the station rotation model. In the video below, I respond to a math teacher’s question about how to design math lessons for her 80-minute block period.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). But do educators know how to support our requirements? If we look at a standard day in any classroom, the activities and assessments are all channelled through writing.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Welcome to the third post in a series designed to support the use of technology for differentiated learning… in and beyond the PBL classroom. I believe that the DI classroom must provide students some self autonomy when participating in the writing process. Part 2: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … More Reading.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning. As students prepare for an assessment, create a board with activities that target key vocabulary, concepts, and skills.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Updates "Reinventing the Classroom" Starts Wednesday Evening! Reinventing the Classroom" Call for Volunteers. Saturday, May 3rd at 12pm Classroom 2.0 LIVE Weekly Show , Classroom 2.0 No problem!

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The ultimate goal was to explore how teachers can amplify the benefits of explicit teaching, making the learning experience more impactful and personalized for every student. A Quick Review of Explicit Teaching Explicit teaching is a high-impact teaching strategy in which the teacher shows students precisely what to do and how to do it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum?

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. The beauty of UDL is that it addresses ‘learner variability’, which is the norm in our classrooms.”. A key premise of UDL is that there is no “average learner.”

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Currently, I am teaching a course with UPenn titled “Building a Strong Foundation for Universal Design for Learning and Innovation,” which is part of a UDL certificate program taught with my friend and colleague, Dr. Katie Novak. ( It is not only the content they share but how they share it.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

In fact, we may need to think more closely on how AI is being permitted on school devices and networks, if enough awareness and ethics of AI are being taught, and at the most basic level, reflect on how our concern of "cheating" may be unfairly manifesting itself into inequitable practices in our classrooms. Beautiful.ai.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) draws its inspiration from the broader concept of Universal Design (UD), initially pioneered in architecture. Our focus in this post is on Universal Design for Learning, popularly known by the acronym UDL. UD aims for inclusive access to architectural spaces for all users.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 24, 2021

You design an assessment to measure this standard. The flexibility of this EduProtocols is key to keeping things fresh in your classroom and formative assessment: In Language Arts: vocabulary, figurative language, character traits, theme, literary devices. In Science: vocabulary, processes, how-to’s. You teach and test.

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User Generated Education

JULY 11, 2015

Created by students for teachers, the following video shows students frustrated with the lack of visual learning in the classroom: This post is a call to action to increase visual-based learning in the classroom through: Using visuals, images, video, and other visual media to teach and demonstrate concepts.

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