The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

This summer, educators need to get some rest so that we can be our best. As I look ahead to this summer and listen to educators, here are 21 hot topics that I think we should consider including in our summer PD. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. All opinions are my own.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Don’t get me wrong – efficacy studies are crucial when comparing edtech solutions in the procurement decision process. But when school districts rely solely on them at the expense of anecdotal evidence, the outcomes they see look nothing like the results they were promised. Data can be used as a deflection tactic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Related: College leaders refocus attention on their students’ top priority: Jobs after graduation Groups like Churches’ have built their reputations by placing students in high-quality summer or semester-long internships. Not everybody can take an internship out of their geographic area for a full summer or semester.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Comprehensive planning Planning is essential to the success of any technology upgrade, and planning well ahead gives school districts time to assess current technology needs and goals for the future. Additionally, planning will allow schools to plan and respond to the end of the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. The solution? A room of educators gets schooled on the rigors of mathematical modeling in the life sciences. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many school leaders will therefore be shocked to learn that 52 percent of U.S. schools include areas that fail to meet current building code requirements for minimum indoor radio signal strength for police and fire department communications. Many school leaders will therefore be shocked to learn that 52 percent of U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2020

The teachers taking my online classes this summer tell me they’re having difficulty with remote teaching. There’s a new solution out there from a trusted name you’re probably familiar with that can solve many of these. With JotForm, Summer Camp Registration Couldn’t Be Easier. More About JotForm.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, MindCatcher witnessed the tremendous uncertainty that school site leaders faced while leading their staff, youth, and families, and realized these leaders would need more leadership and wellness support to create the generative learning environments that our youth deserve.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. With newly distributed federal stimulus funds now in hand, school districts nationwide are poised to set learning recovery plans in motion.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. We see problems and solutions differently from the adults around us. Number one: More after-school and summer STEM programs. It’s time we do the same for STEM.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 13, 2019

On Tuesday I was honored to deliver the afternoon keynote for the #KYGoDigital Summer Tour Conference, The Keys to Fostering a Culture of Innovation! Thomas Edison designed the lightbulb 10,000 times, which meant he had this incredible drive to keep trying over 9,000 times after not getting it quite right. Students Who S.A.I.L.

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Neo LMS

JULY 5, 2022

Teacher collaboration has always been essential, but even more so during the past two school years as we faced new challenges in our practice. Because of this, it’s important that teachers have a community where they can work together in the same school or school district, or even on a global scale.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our school is one of just 12 “Science of Reading Spotlight Schools” in Alabama this year, but getting here wasn’t easy. A “full support school” since 2018, we were dealing with some major challenges. After completing the program’s administrative component, I jumped into the teacher’s portion along with my staff.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Chronic absenteeism has surged across the country since the pandemic, with more than one out of four students missing at least 18 days of school a year. That’s more than three lost weeks of instruction a year for more than 10 million school children. Green designated an “on track” student who regularly came to school.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

Our team at Lexington County School District One in South Carolina has focused on mitigating one of these complexities by addressing the human need for connection, support, and ongoing professional learning. Teachers across the nation were asked to transform how they deliver instruction after schools closed due to COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — When Harlandale Independent School District in south San Antonio shuttered its doors in March amid the coronavirus pandemic, Melissa Casey’s first thought about her students was, “How are all of their basic needs going to be met?”. Harlandale High School in south San Antonio. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When former National School Library Program of the Year librarian Marge Cox retired, she began volunteering at Youth Haven, a shelter designed to help abused and neglected children and teens in Southwest Florida. “I I had retired at the end of the 2020 school year and had been praying for God to show me my next adventure.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

Here’s the problem: Low-income and minority students are at a structural disadvantage when it comes to accessing out-of-school opportunities. Children from low-income families are three times less likely to participate in after-school programs. And extracurriculars don’t just move the needle on human capital development.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

The technology services team at Rocklin Unified School District may as well have had its maintenance crew on speed dial. During the summer of 2017, the departments pooled finances and resources to implement the Vertiv SmartRow modular data center at its main site and as its disaster recovery backup at a district high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The first time my mom interacted with an iPad was this August, when her 5-year-old grandson—my nephew—brought it home from school. In these unprecedented times, the expectations for education technology solutions have never been higher. The edtech solutions they invest in must address their most critical and pressing problems.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The deadline enables the start of housing assignments and planning for orientation and other summer programs and helps nudge admitted students to give one more look to colleges that struggle to fill seats. May 1, in short, is a crucial turning point as colleges wrap up one school year and prepare for another. Approaches vary.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He enrolled in college right after high school with the idea of becoming a psychiatrist. Unaware that this career choice required medical school — and unable to afford college, much less a graduate education — Petkov changed majors twice and found himself making only halting progress toward a bachelor’s degree.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

All I can think about is how frustrated I am about the lavender—and the failed efforts to support teacher well-being at my school. Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. At my school, turnover is high, retention is low and morale even lower. The problem?

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For a semester or a school year, a student attempts to get a passing grade in a class. In some cases, the student may have an opportunity to spend time in the summer "making up" for the class, somehow achieving in a few weeks what the student could not do in months. The student is marched dutifully through a curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

In Mississippi and across the nation, schools closed because of coronavirus are struggling to find ways to educate children remotely. Once campuses fully reopen, schools will need clear strategies to catch up students who have been unable to keep up their studies at home, the experts advise. Summer School.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This meant they only fell 3/8 of a year behind in school. Dr. Devers shared a quote from the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s May 2023 report, “Any district that lost more than a year of learning should be required to revisit their recovery plans and add instructional time—summer school, extended school year, tutoring, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Many schools struggled to retain staff. While the challenges schools and districts face are headwinds, we must also recognize the tailwinds propelling us forward and the opportunities they create for the students we serve. Related: Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land? Despair is not useful.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2019

Each summer, students can lose up to three months of learning, according to research collected by the nonprofit think tank, RAND Corporation. And by ninth grade, much of the achievement gap in reading—meaning the difference between the most and least proficient readers—is attributable to the compounding impacts of summer learning loss.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Last fall, after schools had closed and students were forced onto Zoom and Google Classroom in a rush, experts and educators around the world clamored to make a rather fine distinction: What they were doing wasn’t online learning, but rather emergency remote instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, students in a small rural Alabama school district soared. Other Alabama school districts fared well, too, but Piedmont, a small, 1,100-student district where 7 out of 10 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, stood out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. But shortly after I started the program, I realized I was unprepared for the two years that lie ahead.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s back-to-school season across the country, and while this is met with mixed emotions, like it or not, classroom doors are open and welcoming students. Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

PRWEB) JUNE 23, 2022 — Kajeet® , a leading provider of wireless connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver secure, reliable and managed IoT solutions to over 3,000 businesses, schools and districts, and state and local governments, today announced the 22 recipients of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. I wish I had some magic bullet solution but haven’t found it yet. And I have been looking for four decades. There are a lot of holes and gaps from distance learning.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 6, 2023

Learning doesn’t need to be confined to just the school day or even the school year. Summer Immersion Our flexible ST Math Summer Immersion program is a great way to immerse K-5 students in rich math experiences and covers math concepts conducive to their academic success. But summer’s right around the corner!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

Claire Considine, a former teacher’s assistant at Naperville schools near Chicago, left the district for a higher paying job at a nursing home. Considine began searching for jobs not long after the small raise was announced. Related : When kids go back to school, who’s going to drive the bus? NAPERVILLE, Ill.

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