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3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Today, Dr. Desiree Alexander tackles three of those issues: distance learning, hybrid learning, and digital equity. She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. In 2019, he returned to the classroom to further develop Flipped and Mastery Learning.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts. The first four are freely available.

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These resources are designed to support and enhance our collective efforts to create more inclusive and empathetic learning environments. Example: Before teaching a lesson on the civil rights movement, take time to learn about various perspectives, historical contexts, and the language used to discuss race.

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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

The Hechinger Report

Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. The idea was met with nods by three of Chandler’s classmates as they sat discussing the future in the principal’s office of their 400-student elementary school, a red-brick structure in a suburb of Portland. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

There is rarely enough to go around, and the need is great : a 2016 report by school facilities advocates argued that districts would need to spend $46 billion more each year to provide “healthy and safe” learning environments for all students. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Census data.

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The Best Convertible Car Seat – For Safety and Comfort – in 2022

Fractus Learning

Convertible car seats made after 2002 have built-in anchors and tethers on the sides of the back seat—vehicles made in 2000 and later will have tether anchors between the vehicle seats and backrest. You won’t need another car seat from infant to elementary school. Car seats sold in the U.S. Harness Adjustment.

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