Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

These vulnerable lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” an award-winning film written, directed and starred in by elementary school students at Rocketship schools in California. That’s when I knew there needed to be a place for women that promoted self-esteem and positive body image. But the film offers hope.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2017

Successful students, like startups, are those who are resilient, constantly absorbing new information and challenging their assumptions. What follows is a tour through some programs that offer students the chance to engage in entrepreneurial thinking before they enter college. If it doesn’t learn and adjust, a startup ends.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

When I was serving 18,000 students as the K-12 Math Curriculum Coordinator for the Parkway School District in suburban St. students in mathematics, we need to. students in mathematics, we need to. Focused on teachers’ and students’ continuous growth. Louis, I wore many hats—arguably too many for any one person.

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Kyle Pace

APRIL 5, 2017

” While I’ve never thought there was one clear answer to this question; one particular action or formula that could solve all the problems in education, I do believe that people (as in you and I and every other education stakeholder) have all the power to make the changes that need to be made for our students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2017

Students from low-income families enroll in college (immediately after high school) at a rate 30 percentage points lower than that for students from high-income families — and that gap has persisted since 1990. There is a gap between what students aspire to achieve and what they accomplish. And it’s not for lack of aspirations.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 17, 2017

As a teacher for over fifteen years, I know all too well that many of my students just aren’t as excited by the subject as I am. Students can work together on stories and assignments, sharing comments and suggestions with each other in much the same way they engage with their digital lives outside the classroom.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 6, 2017

I sometimes go in that route when it's clear my students need to grapple with processing more language. Having seen "a round," as opposed to my giving directions, we also made a goal for how many rounds we should play in our time period for the activity to feel complete and fun.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. The small Connecticut town, just south of the Massachusetts border, is in its fifth year under a system that asks students to master specific skills in every subject.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 17, 2017

What if instead of just writing the answers to questions on a piece of paper, students were demonstrating their knowledge through a collaborative Google Drawing of the Battle of the Alamo, able to include labels, historical figures, and tell the story in a completely new way. If only we had had Google Docs that year!

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MindShift

APRIL 14, 2017

The two recently published an article on the emotional and economic toll that redshirting can have on students, despite all its praise from writers like Malcolm Gladwell. She was so bright and so self-possessed. In the article, you write that redshirting can even have a financial effect on students — an $80,000 decrease in earnings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Other students jump in, arguing in favor of green and Cool Ranch, and the room periodically erupts into shouting and laughter. Students, many living in poverty, can check in with each other and with a teacher who stays with their “pod” (as the school calls each group) from ninth grade until senior year. Blue is the best color.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 13, 2017

I also recognize the challenges these students face as they learn a second language while still learning their first. My own experiences the past few years and the support of my seasoned ELL assistant have given me a set of strategies to help me support my students. Needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity!

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MindShift

APRIL 26, 2017

Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon are two longtime education activists and reformers who have become increasingly convinced that the current education model is not preparing students for a world in which computers can do much of what humans used to do and in which creative thinking is highly prized. Students love the space.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2017

Feel free to elaborate. RESPONSES Any other thoughts, comments, or ideas?

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 19, 2017

In my last EdTeachTeam blog post I shared why I use Smashboards and in this post I would like to share in more detail what a Smashboard is, how my students are using them and how to create your own. So How Do Students Use Smashboards? Maybe the icon is a direct link to a new app. Get it now? I will share more on that later.

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MindShift

APRIL 19, 2017

She started out as the kind of teacher who had every lesson planned out to the minute; the kind of teacher who assigned lots of writing at home, graded everything meticulously, and had very high expectations of students. She was in control of her classroom, but she found that often her students were disengaged. Courtesy Catlin Tucker).

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 5, 2017

The room is packed with people: 90 students, nine writing mentors, and the instructor. Students sit in new desks: rolling chairs with a bottom “saucer” for storing backpacks, a moving tray designed for a laptop. Students have nicknamed the chairs “George Jetsons.” They take turns documenting their work on social media platforms.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2017

How do we cultivate these skills in our students? A few weeks ago, I was given an advanced copy of Lisa Johnson’s new book, Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students. Chapter 4: Student Publishing and Projects. But what does this look like in the classroom? Chapter 7: Curation.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 3, 2017

By enrolling in this course, you will gain access to an exclusive Google+ community just for Shake Up Learning students. I will help you determine the best way to answer questions and show your best self. There is room to write, brainstorm, and reminders to get important dates on your calendar. Google+ Community. Application Tips.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Revision Assistant , part of the Turnitin family, is a comprehensive virtual writing assistant for students that allows them to digitally edit and rewrite documents for any class. By the time we were finished with a pilot test, we discovered that a technology tool helped us and our students in some unexpected ways. Here’s what we did.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

high school student who incapacitated his own school’s network (and was subsequently arrested by police ) and the other involved a phishing attack against a school district resulting in the theft of $40,000. It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

high school student who incapacitated his own school’s network (and was subsequently arrested by police ) and the other involved a phishing attack against a school district resulting in the theft of $40,000. It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2017

Erin and I touched on a number of topics that I would say are part of thoughtfully "pulling back the curtain" on education, and which have become more and more preeminent in my thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

With new voucher bills popping up across the country this spring, DeVos signaled a turn to parental choice reflective of increasing focus on individual self-interests. This helps us to better balance and ensure just living over pursuit of self-interest by individuals indifferent to how their personal quest may impact others.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via The Hill : “21 state AGs denounce DeVos for ending student loan reform.” Students In Visual Arts , Music ,” NPR reports. It’s almost as though the narrative about “failing schools” doesn’t care much about students’ creativity. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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