A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

'The beginning of the school year always renews my focus on how to improve my leadership skills. Each year I critically analyze ways I can improve as well as what I feel I am doing well. To my mind, we all have the capacity to lead. It is through leadership that we become catalysts for positive change. Once sustainable change takes hold, we will see the fruits of our labor in the form of transformed teaching and learning practices amongst learners and in ourselves.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

'"Alone we are smart but together we are brilliant." October has been declared by the U.S. Department of Education to be Connected Educator Month. Started in 2012, an entire month of webinars, blog posts, ideas, discussions and more are dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of educators to get connected. I have been honored to be a part of the planning process and give input and ideas to the entire team that is working tirelessly to promote various events, tools and resources for e

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The 21st Century Principal

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

'“The nation has become obsessed with ‘seat time,’ assuming that this ‘hunkering down’ at desks and tables will result in higher test scores.” Ron Nash, From Seatwork to Feetwork What are some outmoded educational practices and ways of schooling that we need to change the most? Like the concept of "seat time" mentioned above, many of our ways of doing school and educational practices are obsolete.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

'You may have heard that a new version of iOS- iOS7- is available! This gives your iPad operating system a new look and feel and additional features. This new operating system is accessed (for free) in your Settings app under General>Software Update for iPad 2s and later, including the mini. I did my updates after a backup and "over the air" (i.e. through Settings), rather than connecting to iTunes via a computer, and it went smoothly, though it took about an hour, so be sure to allow that ti

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

'Guest post by Adam Bellow With so many demands on a teacher’s limited time and a growing number of frameworks and standards being introduced that can increase demands even further, many educators have looked to digital tools as a way to help them make the most efficient use of their time as they strive to be even more effective at the craft of teaching.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

'Can technology help us to think more clearly? We find ourselves increasingly immersed in our digital worlds, surrounded by devices and tools, our minds constantly impacted by streams of new information. It''s often difficult to keep up, and one could easily feel swamped by the relentless flow. This a similar experience for hundreds of millions of other individuals around the world.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

'There''s a way to follow the first online GLOBAL S T E M x EDUCATION CONFERENCE for everyone! First, why the x? "The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics acronym is no longer adequate, as it is missing well over 20 letters that represent key skills & disciplines. As such, x = Computer Science (CS), Computational Thinking (CT), Inquiry (I), Creativity & Innovation (CI), Global Fluency (GF), Collaboration ( C ),and other emerging disciplines & 21st century skills. " The o

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

'As more and more people are becoming comfortable with social media, an unfortunate new trend has developed. I call it "Link and Leave." Here's how it goes. You’ve written a blog post, started a crowdfunding campaign, have a photo or video you’d love to share. Next you post just the link without an explanation , or write something like: “My latest post.” or “Inspiring.” or “Interesting.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

'The Ely Center, LLC, where I work as an SLP and Program Coordinator, is thrilled to affiliate this fall with Mindwing Concepts, Inc, creators of some of my favorite tools for language intervention: Story Grammar Marker®, Braidy the StoryBraid® and ThemeMaker®! Mindwing will be providing seminar-style professional development workshops out of our NEW location here in Newton, MA.

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The 21st Century Principal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

'Giving students starter projects at the beginning of the school year is vital to make sure they learn the mechanics of project-based learning, collaboration, and engagement. It is the project scaffold that makes future project-based learning instruction more fruitful. This morning, during class visits, one of our world history classes was engaged in creating "Who Am I?

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

'Saw Matthew Winner ''s Google + post this morning and thought to myself, now THIS is something my fellow teacher-librarians will love! A live news show just for us! Anchors along with Matthew will be Michelle Cooper , Elissa Malespina , Shannon Miller , and Sue Levine. A stellar group! Be sure to mark your calendar for September 23, 8pm EST (2pm HST) and every third Monday of the month!

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Post Views 5 #BacktoSchool management tips for innovative educators.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

'Our first ever Global STEMx Education Conference starts this Thursday, and it''s going to be AWESOME. We have 178 accepted practitioner sessions on science, technology, engineering, math, and more; as well as sixteen terrific keynotes; all starting 24 hours a day at 11am US Pacific Time Thursday. Don''t miss out--all sessions are free, and all are being recorded as well for free viewing indefinitely afterwards.

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The 21st Century Principal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

'“Although you can’t make your life more perfect, you can, without question, learn to live more skillfully.” Phillip Moffit, Emotional Chaos to Clarity: How to Live More Skillfully, Make Better Decisions, and Find Purpose in Life In the early days of my career, as an assistant manager with a large retail chain, I fondly remember a mentoring, veteran store manager telling me, “You know, you get better at this managing thing.

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Some guy named Rae...

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The only thing that’s constant is change. Rising tuition costs. Shrinking population of 18-year old students. Increased attention from the federal government. An unsustainable business model. You don’t have to look very far to find a reason why higher education has got to change. You would think that we would be primed for it.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Article Pageviews From BadAss to Batty.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

'Early in my teaching career I was lucky enough to connect with the San Diego Area Writing Project. Larning with the amazing teachers in the writing project summer institute taught me many things and each day different lessons come back to me. This morning as I try to get moving after a great weekend of learning (and driving) the lesson that comes back to me is "How will I know what I think until I see what I wrote.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

'For staff using Google Apps for Education, it is very important that when you are logging into Google Chrome at your school to login to your computer first as yourself only. 1. Find the Chrome shortcut on your desktop and double-click it. 2. If you have never signed into chrome you will get a welcome screen. Type your school email address in the email box Type your password in the password box Note : if you haven’t changed your password contact your domain administrator. 3.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

'The only thing that’s constant is change. Rising tuition costs. Shrinking population of 18-year old students. Increased attention from the federal government. An unsustainable business model. You don’t have to look very far to find a reason why higher education has got to change. You would think that we would be primed for it.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

'"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I began blogging because I needed a way to document what I was doing, thinking and studying. My professional life is pretty hectic much of the time, and I needed a space to write down my ideas and record my thoughts before I forgot them.

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