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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. I advise teacher professional learning cohorts to start small if they plan to introduce a project-based learning unit. Students must show how they used feedback to improve their design in the final presentation.

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Digital Learning Day: Social Media PD Best Practices #DLDay

The CoolCatTeacher

Best practices for hashtag maintenance and open learning. The lessons learned from effective social media PD. If we can upgrade our knowledge based on current research, we can not only create better professional development opportunities for teachers, but we can become better online participants. wordpress.com/.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” The first goal of effective models of teacher professional development is understanding who they are and what are their needs. Technology and Professional Development. The post What Makes Professional Development Work?

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Teaching Vocabulary in the Service of Knowledge

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How to Teach Critical Vocabulary Strategically. This approach helps students acquire a richer bank of words while developing knowledge. If the knowledge-based approach to reading instruction is new to you, fret not. Are there some words that matter more in English than other words? Where to Start? Join the Community.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

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Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities? Are certain voices, experiences, and identities excluded from how we conceptualize early childhood education? Tonia Durden, Ph.D.,

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What Should First Year Teachers Know About Tech Integration?

Tech Helpful

Apps and websites like Kahoot, Socrative, Go Formative, or using school-based LMS quiz solutions allows for more knowledge based on individualized students. The value of professional learning networks (PLNs). How to read website and app data retrieved from student learning and how to value that timely information.