A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 6, 2016
" Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out greatness in others. " - Jon Gordon There is no shortage of advice on the characteristics, qualities, and attributes that make up a great leader. As I have written in the past, leadership is a choice. It does not rely on a title or power, but instead, the actions that one takes.
Battelle for Kids
MARCH 6, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 3. Driving Question: What will happen to me and my students if I redesign my math classroom? Keeping up with the latest and greatest ideas in education is always a challenge; the students, curriculum, and culture are always evolving. As educators we can no longer deny the movement to turning our students into 21st century problem solvers, communicators, collaborators and innovators has gained momentum.
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The Jose Vilson
MARCH 6, 2016
I’ve now taught almost 11 years, starting in the throes of overtesting and overstandardizing. I’ve given multiple forms of assessments over different periods of time. I’ve taught all of the middle school grades and tutored lower and higher grades. I’ve taken my own set of exams for teacher certifications, most of them different from the quizzes for one and only one specific reason.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 6, 2016
The post Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework–And What You Can Do About It appeared first on TeachThought.
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MiddleWeb
MARCH 6, 2016
Text sets can help kids enrich their studies in any content area. MS teacher Kevin Hodgson tells how teachers are using Library of Congress primary resources to create engaging text sets that help students contextualize the present by exploring the past.
eSchool News
MARCH 6, 2016
Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Science achievement gaps present between racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups in the eighth grade already exist when those children are in kindergarten, according to new research published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
eSchool News
MARCH 6, 2016
Public-private partnerships are expanding Reading Rainbow’s impact for a new generation. No doubt the definition of literacy is evolving in the 21st Century. Not only do we want our children to be fluent readers but we also need them to be able to think critically about the information they receive and communicate their thoughts, ideas and opinions in an effective form.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 6, 2016
March 6, 2016 After writing about iPad apps for elementary teachers, we are sharing with you today a list designed specifically for our colleagues teaching in high school. Of course there are tons of.read more.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 6, 2016
Designing a website isn’t easy. And with all of your other priorities, it’s likely not the most appealing. Still, a school or district website is a very helpful tool for communicating with parents and the community. If you’re not exactly sure where to start with your website design project, here are a few tips to get you going. Start with a responsive design.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 6, 2016
March 6, 2016 A great way to engage students in productive literacy practices is to provide them with the tools and opportunities to help them compose and narrate stories through the use of.read more.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 6, 2016
Technology budgets are sometimes hard to come by. And when you have them, you have to decide where you allocate funds for new technology as well as updates to existing technology. Here are a few ways you can make the most of your technology budget for next year. Assess what you have right now. Now’s the time to start looking at the existing technology in your school or district.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 6, 2016
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Adam Welcome
MARCH 6, 2016
Books have always been a large part of my life. Our house growing up looked pretty much like the photo below from Peter H. Reynolds. My dad taught 2nd/3rd grade for over thirty-five years and we had an exorbitant amount of books all over our house. Whenever we'd travel somewhere or just be out of town, my dad was scouting out used book stores. Our local public library was another venue we spent lots of time.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 6, 2016
The post Ep. 34 Growing Better Professional Learning Communities with Dr. Richard DuFour (part 1 of 2) appeared first on TeachThought.
This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.
Adam Welcome
MARCH 6, 2016
This post is co-written with Jon Harper and Adam Welcome. Jon is Vice-Principal at Sandy Hill Elementary School and his blog is featured on EdWords and BAM Radio! Adam is Principal at Montair Elementary School and co-founder of Kids Deserve It. via GIPHY Ferris Bueller has come up in many presentations over the years. Adam has blogged about him before and there are a plethora of quotable moments in the movie that are timeless.
eSchool News
MARCH 6, 2016
Ed. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Click here to read the full app review. Classcraft. What’s It Like? Classcraft is a fantasy-themed, game-based classroom behavior management tool. Students choose a class (warrior, healer, or mage) and form teams, then work together to gain experience points through positive classroom behaviors and academic achievements.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 6, 2016
Not everyone is convinced that a classroom is a place where technology makes sense, and that can be a struggle for administrators who want to move swiftly down a new digital path inside the classroom. If you have challenges convincing your faculty to make the switch, here’s some help. Say it with numbers. Simply cheerleading for technology in the classroom won’t do the trick.
SpeechTechie
MARCH 6, 2016
I am happy to be helping to organize the EdCamp Access unconference this year. Hope to see some of you there. Information is below! EdCampAccess, in the tradition of EdCamps that have taken place around the world, is an unconference devoted to K -12 educators who work with struggling learners. It is not limited to special educators, but anyone who wants to reach students who struggle with reading, writing, organization, behaviors, executive function skills, etc.
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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t
The Innovative Educator
MARCH 6, 2016
Crossposted at the iZone blog Students and teachers spend their days subjected to policies, guidelines, and mandates that they rarely have any say in. Why is that? If we develop policies, guidelines, programs, even buildings with rather than for students and teachers, the result can be a success for all. That’s what we did when we developed social media guidelines for students at the NYC Department of Education—we incorporated the input of relevant stakeholders.
EmergingEdTech
MARCH 6, 2016
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … explore a rich set of PBL. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The Principal of Change
MARCH 6, 2016
You ever try to find that perfect video for students to view to further their own learning in a particular topic? Let’s say you are wanting to teach the concept of “probability” to students, and you want to find a video that might supplement their learning. You know that sharing a video of 20 minutes is probably too long, so a sweet spot could be three to four minutes.
Bryan Alexander
MARCH 6, 2016
Why do so many writers about higher education generalize about the whole sector from the experience of a handful of campuses? Once again the mainstream press emits an article which confuses academia’s 1% with the 99%. This time the putative topic is grade inflation. Quick summary: Mark Oppenheimer thinks grade inflation reveals that grades are lame, and we should move to more qualitative evaluations.
This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.
eSchool News
MARCH 6, 2016
New crowdfunding campaign hopes to bring 3D immersive games to K-12 curriculum. Odeum is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to bring to the market a collection of customizable 3D immersive role-playing games built around K-12 curriculum to enhance students’ learning experience and develop critical thinking and empathy. The company’s name, Odeum, is originated in the Ancient World, from Greek ōideion – a theater where ancients of Greece and Rome hosted music and poetry competi
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