A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

The following is a guest post by Jill M. Hackett Ed.D. - Assistant Superintendent, Academic Services/School Accountability, North Kansas City Schools, Kansas City, MO. Rigor and Relevance can seem like abstract terms until you start to understand how schools and districts apply them in specific ways. Over the past five years, we North Kansas City School District restructured our purpose so that student-centered learning was the ultimate objective.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 13, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 6. Driving Question: Who gets arts education and who gets left out? Excellence for all students in the 21st Century means developing students' sense of self, their engagement with their community and their world, and their capacity for joy and persistence, as well as positive expression and reception. ~ Shelly Gilbride ( At the Crossroads of Arts & Equity ).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 13, 2016

March 13, 2016 Below are some very good iPad apps for music learners. The apps provide you with good training on how to improve your music reading skills. They provide exercises, challenging.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2016

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MARCH 13, 2016

I was recently invited to write for the New York Times about grading for grit and other socio-emotional elements. I articulated what I felt most of you all feel about it: More important, we miss the point about what resilience and enthusiasm means. For many of our most disadvantaged students, just getting to school shows plenty of grit. The fact that they’re in our classrooms writing essays or working on math problems when they haven’t had a good night’s sleep or a proper meal speaks to th

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 13, 2016

There’s no question that being a new teacher is tremendously stressful. But when I reflect on my teaching practice and how it evolved over the years, I realize that I created a lot of my own stress simply through the way I chose to perceive my work. The mindset that I held toward my students and their parents, as well as how I viewed my role in the classroom, often made an annoying incident feel maddening, and a challenging situation feel impossible to overcome.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 13, 2016

March 13, 2016 Here are some very good educational iPad apps that are free today. Our favourite app in this list is Stickyboard 2. This is a powerful whiteboard and note taking app to use to capture.read more.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 13, 2016

When I first began my career as an educator back in the 90s, I believed the problem with schools was that they were boring and the work was irrelevant. Those are indeed big problems, but what I later realized is we need to do more than make schools relevant and exciting. We must provide environments where students can engage in innovative, real-world experiences they find meaningful.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Anne Jolly is ready to return to the classroom, so long as she can teach at Fisher Middle, a flexible facility designed to maximize student learning, with fully integrated technology, a project based STEAM curriculum; and built-in teacher collaboration and professional learning.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 13, 2016

For those of you secondary school folks planning, or planning to enhance, makerspaces in your libraries, check out the news from the White House and act before the April 1st deadline! A press release shared that Acting Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. asked that Congress to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Ac t, which provides more than $1.1 billion for the nation’s career and technical education programs in grades 7-12 and also in post-secondary institutions

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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.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2016

The post 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area appeared first on TeachThought.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 13, 2016

Effective group work sparks student engagement and builds communication skills for the future. But how do teachers structure teamwork activities so kids are cooperative and everyone learns? Instructional expert Barbara Blackburn offers a step-by-step blueprint.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 13, 2016

Libbi Miller and I are finishing up the follow-up book to “50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom.” Neither book is a step by step what to click on in Google Classroom. Our books instead focus on things to do with Google Classroom. Realizing that a tour of the features in Google Classroom might be helpful […].

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 13, 2016

This weekend I performed a small digital storytelling experiment. I created one story and published it through two different venues. Which worked better? The story is a simple one about Vermont’s winter passing unusually quickly, giving way to a surging spring. I took photos, rewatched this video clip I shot , wrote up and recorded a voiceover track, then sketched out an outline combining the images and audio.

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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.

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MARCH 13, 2016

If you would like to create or use a badge created from Google Drawing I have created a Google Form to submit the badge. Feel free to reblog the templates and links. This project only works if we can get the word out to share the badges we create. tinyurl.com/submitabadge Any badges submitted should be […].

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 13, 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 … Virtual Reality continues to make. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Adam Welcome

MARCH 13, 2016

via GIPHY I'm a coffee drinker, it started in college and it's been my morning ritual for many years! The other day for some reason I was thinking about coffee and my grandparents generation, what did they drink? Folgers - Maxwell House - Yuban! It turns out that I always collect the coffee drinks from my staff at the beginning of each year so I can surprise them on occasion with something from Starbucks or Peet's.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2016

The post Ep. 37 Growing Inquiry In The Classroom With The i5 Strategy appeared first on TeachThought.

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MARCH 13, 2016

You will find a multitude of questions and answers about weather and climate from this interactive site from NASA.

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MARCH 13, 2016

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 13, 2016

Speaking has become something that I not only study, but I see as an art form. In a great talk, people will not only feel engaged, but empowered to go do something after. No matter what you say, it is important to think about how people feel. Not only do I want them to be inspired and feel that they are on the right track, but it is important that they are challenged to go do something different.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Absorb facts with these challenging U.S. geography and states games.

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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.

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