The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

While I won’t claim to ever be perfect, I have learned so much over the last seventeen years. If this post helps some of you avoid the mistakes I learned early on, then it will accomplish its purpose! Classroom Management Tip #1: Build a Partnership With Your Students It’s true that you must relate before you can educate.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2019

The best way to be a great educator is to keep learning, and what better way to do that than specialized educator professional development? There are a number of professional development opportunities this spring, including workshops on personalized learning and behavioral interventions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

So she whipped up a few online forms, messaged colleagues on Twitter and together they created the Instructional Design Emergency Response Network. So she whipped up a few online forms, messaged colleagues on Twitter and together they created the Instructional Design Emergency Response Network. Diann Maurer answered the call.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 2, 2020

First,” said Dr. Bren Elliott, Chief School Improvement and Supports Officer for District of Columbia Public Schools, “everyone needs foundational training in the origins of racism, how bias takes root in the classroom, and the negative impact it has on how we treat and what we expect of children. By Stacey Pusey. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. Let’s use VR for good.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The school needs to break down the student information in as many ways as possible to see how they can better serve them. Also, they should ask what they are doing well now, how they can improve on that, and what they can focus on next. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2019

In 2017, at the end of our third year of implementing personalized learning at Dallas ISD, our central personalized learning team conducted a series of stepback meetings with school leaders. We wanted to learn their biggest concerns around implementation, along with what was and wasn’t working for them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 16, 2018

If you’re implementing NGSS in your school or state, this is a must listen. Legends of Learning has amazing game based science experiences for students in 3-8 aligning with Next Generation Science and select state standards. Go to coolcatteacher.com/science and sign up for your free account now. Listen Now. Enhanced Transcript.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

According to presenters of a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , as school leaders look to reopen their schools, they shouldn’t just be focused on logistics. Context – Staff must understand and address how factors outside of school are impacting student learning. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

It took Jasmine Lane five years to discover and fulfill her passion for English literature and teaching — but a year and half to burn out. In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter.

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In this post, I’m going to show you 6 powerful tools that will help you to be more productive, effective, and organized in your role as an instructional coach. Every professional possesses a set of tools that help them perform their job duties at an optimal level – instructional coaching is no different.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2022

Penny Fox didn’t finish high school. A single mom of two kids, the jobs that she can find tend to be in retail, at stores like Walmart and Home Depot. But Fox wants work that is better paid. She wants a career. To get one, she’s been taking classes at an Arizona community college—off and on—for 10 years. “I I was a foster-care child,” Fox says. “I

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

I know you will find these over 45 links valuable as you facilitate your students in both designing, innovating, and building. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Instructional Technology Coaches can be helpful advisors for teachers if they learn strategies of encouragement and empowerment. Deb Ramm helps us learn the techniques to help powerful improvement happen in classrooms. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

Jeff Bradbury, IT Coach and Podcaster at the Teachercast Network and I talk about education podcasting and how it all works. Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online professional development courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout to get 20% off any course.

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Insight Education Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

According to a School Leaders Network’s report, CHURN: The High Cost of Principal Turnover : “Twenty-five thousand (one-quarter of US principals) leave their schools each year, leaving millions of children’s lives adversely affected. However, districts nationwide are facing a crisis when it comes to retaining effective principals.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In my work with Discovery Education, I help schools across the country create modern digital learning environments. In these conversations, one topic that has regularly come up over the last few weeks is the relationship between blended learning environments and engaging, relevant learning experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Related: Nation’s skeletal school mental health network will be severely tested. Related: Nation’s skeletal school mental health network will be severely tested. I told myself it was my fault because if I wasn’t so fixated on myself and if I would have called him to check up on him, he would still be here,” she said.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2017

16-20) to raise awareness of the importance of teaching digital citizenship to students of all ages. The need to teach digital citizenship skills has never been greater. Free webinar for educators, “ Bring Digital Citizenship to Life in Your School ,” on Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. Two digital citizenship Twitter chats on Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nuñez Ardon took an unusual path to the classroom: She earned her teaching degree through evening classes at a community college, while living at home and raising her four children. Community college-based teaching programs like this are rare, but growing. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times. Credit: Ellen M.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 17, 2018

In this series I wish to help educators find ways to get ideas for a PBL they may wish to do with their class. I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on PBL! You may have found that perfect lesson at your favorite curriculum site… can it be expanded to a PBL?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

5 Authentic Roles For Twitter In Your School. We’ve theorized before that learning through social networks is the future. We kept it basic with 5 pathways: Resources, Student Learning, PLNs, Emerging Trends, And PD. 5 Authentic Roles For Twitter In Your School. Find Professional Development.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21 st century learning or are left behind. Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D., Cynthia Schultz, Esq.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Then there’s Nectome, a “ 100 percent fatal ” startup that boasts the ability to upload your brain for future use. He’s also on the lookout for tools that “unlock the black box of a child’s learning” for parents. Inside, an industrial-grade drone sat nearby tables offering instant coffee and cannabis sodas. Here’s what we saw instead.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2017

What they learn in schools is so unrelated to what they learn online or what their daily lives are like. What if she could combine Making and entrepreneurism and show these kids that they could take all the tech tools they were learning and start making a living with them, right now? They just can’t relate to it," says Kaun.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

With this evolving role comes an increasing need to understand and address the ways in which student trauma affects our education professionals. STS can affect teachers’ happiness, health and professional practice. The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. I promise you will find some wonderful information coming your way in the posts that follow…So sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet. Quick Notes.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 26, 2018

If you’ve been looking for a no-nonsense book with practical ideas to improve your teaching practice, then Making Your Teaching Something Special from EdTechTeamPress is a must-read. For the new educator, it will inspire you to think more deliberately and plan the habits you want to develop your craft around.

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Buncee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We love hearing about the different ways educators use Buncee in their classroom, and what features they and their students are excited about! What do you and your students love about Buncee? She is the President for the ISTE Teacher Education Network and Communications Chair for the Mobile Learning Network.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

And yet the conversations were uplifted by some powerful stories of students succeeding in ways that left the adults starstruck. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on Digital Leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Scholastic Achievement Partners (SAP) , kicked off the 2015 Leading Future Learning conference with his keynote on Digital Leadership. “If it is important to you, you will find a way.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

I want to talk about the emails that I get on an almost-daily basis from veteran teachers who are completely overwhelmed at how the job they signed up for 20, 30, or 40 years ago is nothing like the job they are being required to do today. These are teachers who entered the field because they love kids, and they love teaching.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2017

What they learn in schools is so unrelated to what they learn online or what their daily lives are like. What if she could combine Making and entrepreneurism and show these kids that they could take all the tech tools they were learning and start making a living with them, right now? They just can’t relate to it," says Kaun.

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