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10 Things Great Leaders Do

A Principal's Reflections

" Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out greatness in others. " - Jon Gordon There is no shortage of advice on the characteristics, qualities, and attributes that make up a great leader. As I have written in the past, leadership is a choice. It does not rely on a title or power, but instead, the actions that one takes.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.” The event had a strong financial services theme, although I met audience members engaged in a wider array of fields (including healthcare and social media)

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How e-learning can benefit working students

Neo LMS

Working students. Aren't they a character? Interrupting classes because they arrive late, skipping classes altogether and affecting everyone in their learning group by not being totally prepared for the latest course, or turning in late assignments and begging for them to be taken into consideration. And they have the best excuse: they have jobs. Sometimes they seem to forget that a future well-paid job settles above a university degree.

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Why Most School Wi-Fi Networks Are Not Prepared for the Future

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith This year’s E-Rate applications are expected to amount to $5.8 billion — but will that be enough to prepare schools for the future?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Shared Leadership Teams – The Series

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The multiple perspectives, the buy-in from diverse stakeholders, shared leadership teams are a powerful tool in your arsenal for making large-scale school change stick. Shared leadership teams focus on the strategic work of the school. They focus on school change and improvement. They are not simply an advisory group. They are the decision making body.

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Stanford Teaching Festival from August 1-5, 2016

Catlin Tucker

This summer I will be teaching a class titled “ Engaging Today’s Learners with Technology ” at the Stanford Teaching Festival from August 1-5th. This class is designed for educators teaching grades 6-12 (cross curricular). Below is detailed course information if you (or a co-worker) is interested in joining me for a hands-on, collaborative professional development course!

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Rhode Island Embraces Bold New Comp Sci Initiative

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Calling computer science a “new basic skill,” Rhode Island’s governor wants to make the state a new innovation hub.

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STEAM by Design

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 5. Driving Question: How might school-wide STEAM instruction increase student learning? The Bullis Charter School STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) program is the cornerstone of our core curriculum. The first goal of our STEAM program is to make innovative, engaging, rigorous education available to all students at all levels, The second is to facilitate a deeper conceptual understanding of the material in a meaningful way.

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Kids Teaching Kids: Tricks to Teach Tech Quickly (4 of 4)

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This is the fourth in a series of posts on teaching technology quickly so technology-based learning activities can be focused more on the learning than on the technology. Kids Teaching Kids. Another effective strategy is “Kids Teaching Kids.” This strategy is important because many teachers still don’t feel they know as much about technology as their students do (whether they actually do, or not).

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Dear Otto: How do I set the default font on MS Word

Ask a Tech Teacher

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names. Here’s a great question I got from a reader: MS Word opens with Calibri 11 and I want Times New Roman 12.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Vote for Nominees in EdTech K–12’s 2016 Must-Read IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff Who are some of your favorite K–12 technology bloggers?

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The Risks of Ed-Tech Entrepreneurship, Part 2

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

While ed-tech entrepreneurship may be less risky than other sectors, there are still many uncertainties to be aware of. Financial, technology, and market sectors are all areas for deep thought and caution. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Cheat Sheets: Tricks for Teaching Tech Quickly (3 of 4)

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Below, is the third of four posts highlighting techniques that will help insure that teachers are helping students succeed with their work by teaching them the technology skills they need, but doing it quickly, so that most of the time could be spent focusing on content from the curriculum. Cheat Sheets. The third trick for teaching technology quickly is a strategy that works hand in hand with mini lessons: the use of “Cheat Sheets.”.

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Extreme Learners

User Generated Education

The idea of extreme learners fits so nicely with my ideas of user-generated education. So what follows is an aggregate of ideas, videos, and graphics related to being an extreme learner. Milton Chen has stated, “Extreme learners aren’t so different from everybody else.” I believe that the tenets and characteristics of extreme learners can apply to every learner given the support, time, and skills to do so.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Race to the Top Funds Help State Data Systems

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff A recently released report states that schools used $4 billion in federal Race to the Top grant money to make significant progress in areas such as state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

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Getting to Know Students in the Online World

FuelEd

Contributor: Kelli Hicks Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 12:00pm When I first started teaching online, I thought I would never get to know my students very well in the new environment. In my previous brick-and-mortar classroom, I was able to see my students every day and was able to talk and interact with them in person. As a result of this daily interaction, I didn’t just know them academically.

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How to Avoid Unintentionally Sabotaging Your Shared Leadership Teams

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So, if you are forming shared leadership teams for your initiative, you clearly want to reap the benefits that come from them: increased buy-in, soliciting stakeholder voice and choice, designing and planning strengthened by the power of multiple perspectives. And, if you are the one putting the leadership teams together, then you’re already a leader in your school or district (a little positional authority is usually needed to get them started).

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Ways to Celebrate 'Music in Our Schools Month'

Voyager Sopris Learning

March is Music in Our Schools Month. Since ancient Greece, music has been an important area of study. The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 lists music as a core academic subject. So allow me to step on my music advocacy soapbox (we call them conducting podiums) and illuminate both why and how you can support music in our schools. Advocacy for music in public education is important because it seems that in today’s society, where quality education is summarily evaluated by data from test scores, a

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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This Technology May Eliminate Student Daydreaming

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. This Technology May Eliminate Student Daydreaming By Fergal Bell There are few things more frustrating for a teacher than seeing their students switch off during class. The time and energy spent checking whether children are actively listening or whether they have drifted off could certainly be better used elsewhere. Enter Emotiv, a US based technology […].

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The mesmerizing, attention-grabbing power of silence

Ditch That Textbook

I hate catching myself droning. It’s a nasty habit that I’ve acquired. Even though I’m trying to kick that habit, I still catch myself doing it. I’m not talking about little helicopters, and I’m not talking about bees. I’m talking about droning on. And on. And on. From the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English, [.].

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“Just in Time” Lessons: Tricks to Teaching Tech Quickly (2 of 4)

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This is the second in a series of posts on teaching technology quickly so the focus of technology-based learning activities can be on learning through technology rather than the technology itself. “Just in Time,” not “Just In Case”. The mistake the Health teacher from the recent post made wasn’t doing the mini lessons before letting students start their project.

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Dreaming big at Iowa BIG

Dangerously Irrelevant

Do you know about Iowa BIG ? Co-located with a corporate startup accelerator at a former brownfield site of Iowa Steel, Iowa BIG is a project-based learning option for Cedar Rapids area high school students. Students spend half of their day at their traditional, ‘mother ship’ high school and the other half at Iowa BIG. Local businesses, nonprofits, and city agencies pitch proposed projects to the students, hoping that talented youth will take up their challenges.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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IS ALL STEM INSTRUCTION EQUAL?

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 4. Driving Question: How Can We Assess the Potency of STEM Instruction? "A rose is a rose is a rose", wrote Gertrude Stein. Although her poetic flair captured the essence of every rose's beauty, it didn't distinguish which rose might be the most delightful and which were just great to smell.

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ICYMI: Game-Changing Coaching [video]

Fidelis Education

We recently hosted a webinar with Josh Cage, EVP of Greenwood Hall, to talk about jumpstarting a game-changing coaching program, all the way from acquisition of coaches, to best practices in coaching.

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Shared Leadership Teams: What They Are and Aren’t

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Schools already have lots of groups that they call leadership teams. But many of them are not what I would refer to as “shared leadership teams,” not in the sense we were talking about in the previous post. I would probably call them “management teams.” Schools frequently have teams that are used to help share information between building administration and teams or departments, or to decide how and when to transition between terms or trimesters, or how to handle lunch on

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6 of The Best TED Ed Riddles to Use with Students in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 11, 2016 TED Ed is one of our favourite video resources we have been recommending for teachers over the last few years. It features short video explanations (usually less than 5 minutes long).read more.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

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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TRANSFORMED Me, TRANSFORMED SPACE, TRANSFORMED GEOMETRY

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 3. Driving Question: What will happen to me and my students if I redesign my math classroom? Keeping up with the latest and greatest ideas in education is always a challenge; the students, curriculum, and culture are always evolving. As educators we can no longer deny the movement to turning our students into 21st century problem solvers, communicators, collaborators and innovators has gained momentum.

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ICYMI: Game-Changing Coaching [video]

Fidelis Education

We recently hosted a webinar with Josh Cage, EVP of Greenwood Hall, to talk about jumpstarting a game-changing coaching program, all the way from acquisition of coaches, to best practices in coaching.

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Tricks to Teaching Technology Quickly: Mini Lessons (1 of 4)

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Yesterday, I suggested that teachers sometimes make one of two mistakes when designing technology-based learning activities for students: either spending too much or too little time teaching the technology skills necessary for the activity. I am not referring here to how teachers might use technology to help with their lecturing and direct instruction (although one friend reminded me that too much lecturing and “PowerPointlessness” are also mistakes teachers make when teaching with technology…

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Some of The Best Android Apps for Creating eBooks with Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 8, 2016 After writing about iPad apps for creating story books, we received a couple of requests for featuring a similar list for Android users. Below are some of the apps we recommend for.read more.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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.