A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 17, 2016
“ If you’re not blogging, you’re selling yourself short; you’re selling your school short. ” - Eric Sheninger During my typical digital leadership keynote or workshop, I consistently talk about the importance of blogging in relation to the pillars of communication, public relations, branding, and professional growth. When I ask attendees how many of them blog, usually ten or less hands go up.
Battelle for Kids
APRIL 17, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 21. Driving question: How do I ensure all my students have maximum benefit in my STEM classes? 100% STEM/PBL I am a science teacher in a 100% PBL high school with a STEM focus. All projects must be aligned to the state standards – that is a non-negotiable! I have 8.5 years experience at this school. PBL and STEM are a perfect match.
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Waterford
APRIL 17, 2016
Waterford’s President Benjamin Heuston and several of our other executives are at the ASU GSV Summit this week in San Diego. But, thanks to a cool interactive interview series, you don’t have to go all the way to California to participate in the event! The annual ASU GSV Summit is an effort put on by Arizona State University and GSV Capital, an investment firm, that brings together educators, education companies and investors to create partnerships, explore new solutions and shape t
The Jose Vilson
APRIL 17, 2016
It’s been two weeks of not-real-teaching. The first week of April was mostly dedicated to the agita of the ELA (English-Language Arts) test, from the content of the exams to the new procedures. Stripping the set times from the ELA test proved worrisome for the adults more so than the students. The latter were ecstatic that they could stuff in all the textual evidence they needed in their extended responses while the former had to actively keep students from daydreaming and napping in the m
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Waterford
APRIL 17, 2016
Waterford’s President Benjamin Heuston and several of our other executives are at the ASU GSV Summit this week in San Diego. But, thanks to a cool interactive interview series, you don’t have to go all the way to California to participate in the event! The annual ASU GSV Summit is an effort put on by Arizona State University and GSV Capital, an investment firm, that brings together educators, education companies and investors to create partnerships, explore new solutions and shape t
Turning Learning On Its Head
APRIL 17, 2016
Too often flipped learning is defined as video at home and homework at school. Though there is some truth in this, it is an incomplete picture. In March of 2014, the Flipped Learning Network ™ – a non-profit organization I co-founded – released a definition of flipped learning. It is as follows: Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space , and the resulting group space is transformed into
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The Cornerstone for Teachers
APRIL 17, 2016
If you are feeling burned out right now or just a little crispy around the edges, I want this episode to reassure you that your feelings are normal, that you can handle the responsibilities you’ve been given no matter how overwhelming they seem, and that the rewards of teaching outweigh the costs. Last week in episode 15 , I shared four keys to helping you rediscover your confidence as a teacher and avoid burn-out.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
APRIL 17, 2016
April 17, 2016 If you have a Mac or iMac and you are not using the Preview app then you definitely are missing out on a lot things. Preview app combines the functionalities of two applications into a.read more.
TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 17, 2016
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The Innovative Educator
APRIL 17, 2016
Innovative educators and students alike understand that genius can’t be measured by a bubble test or a writing exercise that has no audience or purpose. Now that the standardized tests are over for the year, students no longer are confined to hours of reading and answering questions about stuff others find important. Out with the test prep and in with experience.
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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 17, 2016
Children at a child care center in Mississippi. Photo: Kim Palmer. Fifteen percent of Mississippi children didn’t pass the state’s reading test by third grade, and a new report examines one reason why that may be: Many of the state’s early grade teachers don’t know enough about teaching kids how to read. Mississippi’s teacher preparation programs are failing to adequately prepare teachers in reading instruction according to a new report by the nonprofit Barksdale Reading Institute (BRI).
MiddleWeb
APRIL 17, 2016
Whole-class novel study is one curricular tradition that's taken a huge beating in the last several years, writes ELA teacher Cheryl Mizerny. But not in her classroom, where Cheryl works to balance indepth novel study with student book choice and read-alouds.
EmergingEdTech
APRIL 17, 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 … a couple articles exploring emerging. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
MiddleWeb
APRIL 17, 2016
Involving parents and families in a partnership with schools has a positive impact on students. What can principals do to ensure the partnership is sustained, vibrant and diverse? Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn suggest strategies to build connections.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 17, 2016
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The Principal of Change
APRIL 17, 2016
If you have never seen this video, watch it. Beautiful. What could be an amazing project, would be a school doing this with their community where they focus on one question, or have students develop a question that is important to them and have them interview 50 (or 10, or 20, or 100, whatever). Asking the same question to different people, over and over again, would not only be a great research project, but can teach us about others and help our students (and ourselves) become more empathetic.
TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 17, 2016
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techlearning
APRIL 17, 2016
In 2016 there are concerns over meth, cocaine, heroine, marijuana as well as prescription drugs and alcohol.
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TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 17, 2016
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techlearning
APRIL 17, 2016
Impressive creation tool for teens serious about art.
Bryan Alexander
APRIL 17, 2016
Over the past year I’ve been participating in some very interesting, rich, and challenging conversations online. They’ve involved a diverse population and some tricky subjects. I’m writing this post with some embarrassment, because these discussions have occurred on Facebook. Yes, despite Facebook being a vast and inhumane company, in spite of its callous exploitation of our privacy, besides it setting up a walled garden against what I love on the open Web, and the other enume
Bryan Alexander
APRIL 17, 2016
Over the past year I’ve been participating in some very interesting, rich, and challenging conversations online. They’ve involved a diverse population and some tricky subjects. I’m writing this post with some embarrassment, because these discussions have occurred on Facebook. Yes, despite Facebook being a vast and inhumane company, in spite of its callous exploitation of our privacy, besides it setting up a walled garden against what I love on the open Web, and the other enume
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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