Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

As many teachers shift to the Common Core Standards, they are attempting to incorporate more complex texts and more informational/nonfiction texts into their curriculum. If you are asking yourself, “What is a complex text for my students?” check out this blog post I wrote explaining text complexity. Many teachers are discovering that there are a range of websites that offer informational texts available at various Lexile levels.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

All one has to do is look around and see the amazing changes that are taking place in workspaces across the world. I have always been enamored with what Google and Pixar have done to improve working conditions for their employees. An article from Hongkia t provides some insight on why these changes have been made: "Thanks to corporate giants like Google and Pixar that have demonstrated tremendous success despite their unconventional workplaces, more people are embracing the idea that creative wo

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

A 2 Minute Productivity Tip No time to read the news? Newsmap helps. Here are tips and a quick tour. A Fast Way to Read the News: Newsmap. Newsmap isn’t new — but perfect for a five-minute glance at the news. Here are some tips: When you hover over a box, it will show you the most recent headline. (Great if the box is tiny.). The brightness of the box shows you how breaking the news is.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

High teacher turnover can create a culture of substitute and long-term substitute teachers in a school, with negative impacts on student achievement. Is mentorship and high-quality professional development the answer? Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Every Earth Day, someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? Everyone nods their heads, agrees this is a revolutionary idea, and moves on as Earth Day passes. Really, though: Why not? There are benefits to adopting web-based alternatives to paper: it’s easy to collaborate when everything’s online. nothing gets soda dripped on it or eaten by the dog. students can collaborate without requiring parent time and gas fumes. teachers

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

By D. Frank Smith A challenge hosted by MakerBot swept the country, as 3D printing and STEAM comes alive at schools nationwide.

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Brilliant or Insane

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. Photo Credit: https://flic.kr/p/95iJuo It happens every fall. Many first year teachers become newlyweds and begin having children. Veteran teachers in the prime of their careers–those who worked hard to find a balance between work and family–are suddenly responsible for their elderly parents’ care. Someone gets sick. Someone takes a different job.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

School’s back and it’s more important than ever to integrate technology into your curriculum. Why? Consider these thirteen changes to technology-in-education since 2013: Windows has updated their platform—again. IPads have been joined by Chromebooks as a common classroom digital device. There is a greater reliance on internet-based tools than software.

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Battelle for Kids

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 4. This post begins a four part series from Katherine Smith Elementary School, a P21 Exemplar. In this series, you will read about how a school's policy and practice are connected so that all students with special needs are included as 21st century learners. The team strives not to water down rigor or make accommodations that can remove the challenges of deeper learning by separating how and what special needs children learn.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

By Chad A. Stevens, Ph.D. Technology alone will not improve outcomes for students.

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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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Brilliant or Insane

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. 5 Myths About English Language Learners By Jason R. Levine 1 – ELLs need to study grammar. Studying a language to develop a conscious understanding of grammar remains the norm. Unfortunately, so does not learning the language to fluency. While raised awareness of English structure (e.g., knowing parts of speech or how clauses join together) can be useful, focusing on grammar […].

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Years ago, textbooks served a different purpose. Information was at a premium, and textbooks filled the void. They were chock full of it — a one-stop shop for the curious student. Today, things have changed. We don’t have a lack of places to learn new things. Google searches and YouTube are where many of us [.].

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Battelle for Kids

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 5. Driving Question: How can children with special needs in a Special Day Class (SCD) fit in a Project Based Learning (PBL) school? Three years ago, I joined the reinvention team at Katherine Smith Elementary School. My transition was huge. I had begun my career at a non-public high school in San Francisco and then worked in a traditional, public elementary Special Day Class (SDC) with grades 4, 5, and 6.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I’m sitting in a workshop today about early literacy supports. The presenters are personable, the resources aren’t horrible, the intent is good, and there are 45+ well-meaning educators in the room learning, talking, and thinking about early literacy success for students. But all of our conversations are around systems and processes that reify and strengthen our traditional emphases on low-level learning.

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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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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

I was in EMS for 22 years before retiring due to a back injury. One of my most memorable experiences was responding to New York City as a Paramedic in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I will never forget that experience. What I saw and did are still with me, as is a type of asthma from breathing the dust. My Experience as a Paramedic on 9-11-01 As the years have gone by, I've noticed that people are not remembering this terrible event like they did the first few years after.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Field trips are complicated. Messy. Full of lots of work — and lots of paperwork. Thankfully, these days, you don’t need a bus, a bunch of permission slips and an adequate number of chaperones to take students to a magical learning experience. They’re out there for the taking, they’re free, and sometimes they’re instantly available [.].

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the strongest arguments for classroom technology is the ability it gives teachers to easily adapt curricula for different abilities and learning styles. Give students a choice in how they receive information—and how they interact with it—and their ability to absorb and recall educational material improves immensely. Neil Fleming’s VARK model groups student learning into four styles: 1.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Here’s the first promo video for Erin Olson’s and Leslie Pralle Keehn’s Connecting Creativity series. We can be serious about our work and still have fun! Happy viewing! No related posts.

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Battelle for Kids

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 3. Driving Question: How can we secondary teachers design PBL instruction so that ALL learners succeed? Manor!New!Tech!High!School!(MNTHS) in Manor, TX is a Project Based Learning (PBL) public school that first opened in August 2007. I was a first year science teacher when I started that year. As a result of out school's dramatic success in raising test scores with its mixed population and preparing 99% of its graduates for college acceptance and career success, we are

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Labor Day is annually held on the first Monday of September (this year, September 2nd). It was originally organized to celebrate various labor associations’ strengths of and contributions to the United States economy. It is largely a day of rest in modern times. Many people mark Labor Day as the end of the summer season and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events.

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The Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Charter schools, vouchers and now venture capital! Uber is the model: Squeeze out cost relentlessly, use software and everything will be wonderful! Where do teachers fit into this model?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Check out the new hashtag, #principalsinaction. This is a great way for principals to share what they’re doing in schools. If you’re a school administrator, follow the hashtag to get ideas from your peers. And, of course, also share out your own awesomeness! Related Posts. 1,133 educational leaders to kickstart your Twitter feed. If you’re afraid of change, social media is a distraction and a risk.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a great summer and was able to relax and recharge. My wife's district started back on August 24th, some other schools around here started last week, and many start today. The beginning of the year is always a little crazy for all teachers. Getting your room setup, implementing new ideas into your lesson plans, getting to know your students, and just settling back in to the routine can be busy and stressful.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

By Neil Bright Learn about some of the trade-offs of operating data centers in higher temperatures.

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Brilliant or Insane

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. On the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I showed the video below to my junior high students. At the tender age of 12, most had very little understanding of 9/11. During the video, I had tears in my eyes. My students seemed genuinely surprised that a teacher would become emotional in class. Although my […].

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. In this post you will find some wonderful information on using back channels and games in the classroom. Please keep in mind these are only tools and are best utilized through the important art of teaching.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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Fidelis Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

When good ideas jump from business to education, they often miss the subtle differences that make education such a unique endeavor. Like an organ transplant that’s not quite compatible, these ideas can end up doing damage until they’re rejected. One idea that has made the leap is that relationship management is critical to organizational success – and that technology is the only way to manage these relationships at scale. .

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Last year, I attended EdCamp Los Altos. My goal was to really listen to what the educators had to say, and to try to understand what problems they faced every day. Boy did the EdCamp deliver! Given what we’re trying to help teachers with at Edusight , I was attracted to two sessions – making assessment meaningful, and reinventing the parent-teacher conference.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

A conversation with Lisa Johnson and Kate Wilson Canva is both a web based tool and app that allows you to create graphics easily. It brings the power of image creation to students and educators within a simple interface. Join us as Kate Wilson talk with Lisa Johnson ( @TechChef4u) , a "canvaenglist" with many ways you can use Canva in the classroom.

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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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