The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

This is what I imagine “Book Choice” looks like, from curricular choices to which books grace the shelves of our classrooms. This tension comes from students, parents, teachers, and administration/leaders outside of the classroom. Students want to see themselves in stories. The rubber band pulls tight.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

With these big picture stats and stories coming from the classroom, teachers need advice on helping students develop reading stamina. Is reading stamina a need in today's classroom? The books literally are broken into text message-sized chunks making reading easier, plus Literal has classroom management features for teachers.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

In this article, we’ll go over what differentiated instruction is and how using this learning strategy can provide your students with the resources they need to succeed. Then, we’ll provide a few ideas for differentiating your classroom instruction and show you how Waterford curriculum can help you provide personalized reading instruction.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Let’s take a look at some important resources to help classroom strategies support student learning goals: Why is it important to involve students in learning? Education doesn’t have to mean students do all of their important learning in classrooms. It’s worth exploring how student motivation can reframe education.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

From Digital Promise : Schools, libraries, and classrooms have traditionally been a place for the consumption of information and ideas. The process is cumulative and each piece adds richness and detail to the story world, such as character backstories and secondary plotlines. CoSpaces Story Settings.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Classrooms in the United States are more diverse—culturally and linguistically—than ever before.[15] Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

Blended learning merges active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline, giving students more control over the when, where, and how of their learning journey. Once they finish the Challenge Problems, they can decide how to use their remaining time. Challenge accepted!

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Waterford

MARCH 26, 2021

Let’s look at what the two-generation approach to learning is and how to put it to work in your classroom. How to Practice the Two-Generation Approach in Schools. In your classroom, you might not have the same resources available, but you can take steps to establish a healthy two-generation approach. January 2015.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2024

How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community How Using AI Optimizes Instruction and Learning in Secondary Writing Can AI Help Teachers With Grading? Aida’s experience with AI in the classroom as a member of the Project Topeka team speaks to the need to build stronger feedback loops.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring critical real-world skills like financial education, early literacy, character education, health & wellness, and more to your classroom. Thanks to partners, these lessons are FREE for all K-12 schools and students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Now, Brown is a senior at Clemson, and next year, he’ll graduate and begin teaching in his own classroom. In our Future Teachers series, we meet people in teacher preparation programs who are on the cusp of entering the classroom, aware of the decline of the teaching profession and still unswayed. That's always been my ‘why.’

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

With the widespread use of social media platforms and the ubiquity of news stories, teaching students how to critically evaluate sources and sift the good from the bad becomes a pressing pedagogical necessity. How to spot fake news classroom posters Here are two handy posters to use with students in class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The better a student learns how to use a keyboard, the faster and more accurately, they can work with a computer. Compare this to the old school way of doing research: spending hours in a large library and slowly filling out flash cards. How to Teach Research. Much of the information we gather comes from secondary sources.

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Tools Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary 153

TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

Coach / Library Media Specialist Relationship. The ability to speak at a variety of altitudes is a vital skill that will set the tone not only for the coach, but for how the school district will be able to utilize the Instructional Coaching position both in and out of the classroom. Coach / Building Administrator Relationship.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Another team created their own game testing protocol and got feedback from a local game library. Students must show how they used feedback to improve their design in the final presentation. Interested in learning more? Join me on Tuesday, October 15 at 6 p.m.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

A manifesto for effective classroom collaboration. Having many collaboration issues is not the standard for all classrooms. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning. When done right, learning as a team works. Use team assignments.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

During the edLeader Panel, “ Utilizing ESSER Funding to Implement PBL + STEM Initiatives ,” a panel of educational peers engaged in a lively discussion about how to best invest funding from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) in high-impact project-based learning (PBL) and STEM initiatives across the nation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Across the region, schools have moved classrooms to the cloud in what’s become a massive experiment in distance learning, impacting local and international schools alike. The secondary school’s college advisors are also meeting with students, who, along with their parents, are anxious about upcoming AP exams and other inflexible deadlines.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

If you’ve ever found yourself in Baltimore and walked into Katie Dell’s classroom, you would see students personalizing their learning experience by choosing from an array of activities that are designed to help them work toward their learning goals. In 2019, 26 educators were chosen for the inaugural class. Katie Dell.

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Learning Strategy Guidelines Secondary 191

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. Well, at least in the classroom. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

The ability to speak at a variety of altitudes is a vital skill that will set the tone not only for the coach, but for how the school district will be able to utilize the Instructional Coaching position both in and out of the classroom. The Coaches job in these situations is to support the curricular needs of the teacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

Angela Watson: It’s not about working a 40 hour week–members choose their OWN target number and determine how to allot those hours throughout the week. At least once per month, they also get printable resources to use in the classroom. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2016

forms/iSiA8Rf4nwkhNaol2 Last week I spoke at the annual Washington Library Media Association conference, called "Hack WLMA." It's just an idea that has gotten lost in the standardization model of education, a model which has increasingly overtaken secondary, and now even, higher education. Library 2.0, + TeacherLibrarian.org

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. Toward the end of his secondary school experience, though, he shifted to “healing in the broader sense,” reading more deeply in the humanities. that we have to have a SMART board in every classroom.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 9, 2022

Now that the third school year in a row has been disrupted by COVID-19, many students are struggling with academics and other issues that make it difficult for them to focus fully and enthusiastically on learning in the classroom. During a recent edLeader Panel , district administrators from across the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 4, 2020

These words capture the path that LaVonna Roth uses to challenge others in finding out how to ignite the S.H.I.N.E. As a learning specialist, author, keynote speaker and consultant, LaVonna bridges her passion for how the brain learns with education and helping every individual realize the value they bring. Exceptional.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 8, 2020

In the age of technology, planning for secondary students has become a bit easier as many schools already use platforms like Google Classroom, Schoology, or Microsoft Teams. Give parents tips for home learning Provide the latest news Learn how to use Facebook Live to speak with parents and encourage them to comment on the Livestream.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

Across China, primary and secondary schools are announcing dates for the long-awaited re-opening of classroom doors. We haven’t been informed how to make them up, and I’m worried that it will cause a delay of my graduation,” she said. Obviously, the library and laboratories are not available as well.”

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Most instructors who’ve never taught online can find live video to be a closer analog to their classroom practice than asynchronous tools. Zoom University is a nickname I’ve seen pretty widely.

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Blackboard Education Microsoft Adobe 141

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 14, 2020

He also has experience in teaching secondary English and coaching football and baseball. WEDNESDAY'S SHOWS (July 15) : 10:00 AM - The Connected Classroom with Rusty May - "Teachers Are More Important Than Ever Before" with special guests Kristi Borge and Dawn Larson. Let's talk about the future of education and how to thrive!

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Ready to move the learning in your classroom from static, one-and-done activities, to more dynamic learning—Dynamic Learning with G Suite? This 4-part podcast series will show you how you can use G Suite tools to support dynamic learning experiences for your students! We all have stories to tell in the classroom.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, more commonly known as E-rate, is a federal program through which schools and libraries can apply for funds to purchase hardware, internet access, and telecommunications to connect their students to learning opportunities. What if I get audited? What is E-rate?

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

She graduated from Florida State University and received a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. In 2018, CatchOn joined forces with ENA, a leading provider of comprehensive technology solutions to education institutions and libraries across the nation. Kevin Lewis Sr. Kevin Lewis Sr.

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Data Student Data Privacy Software Internet Safety 96

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. Several educators echo Yates’ comments.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 12, 2021

How to integrate BombBomb into the classroom: During the pandemic, BombBomb has been an incredible way for us to communicate and keep connected to our students and their families. As a teacher in the classroom, BombBomb would be a great way to flip your classroom and send students videos tailored to what they are learning.

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