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Vision Boards: Start the Year with a Visual Goal Setting Exercise

Catlin Tucker

When you articulate the “why” or value of a vision board for your students, explain that the mental practice of visualizing has been shown to positively impact motivation, confidence, and physical ability (Ranganathan, Siemionow, Liu, Sahgal & Yue , 2004 ). Creating a Vision Board. Step 1: Time to Reflect.

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Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

The Hechinger Report

When Pletnick joined the district in 2004, she had to find a way to manage the surging student population and, with it, students’ different academic needs. Subscribe to our Blended Learning newsletter. Read more about Blended Learning. The post Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. While some license holders leased their spectrum in the 1980s and ’90s, the market for it remained somewhat sluggish until 2004, when the FCC changed the permitted use for that part of the spectrum from television to internet and renamed it EBS. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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3 Actionable Ways to be a Courageous School Leader Today

EdTechTeam

I think back to August of 2004 when I interviewed for my first teaching position. She is ecstatic to lead the work as we transition into 21st century classrooms through blended learning opportunities, BYOD, professional learning for instructional technology and digitally connected classrooms.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Desert Sands, added Dr. May-Vollmar, drew on teacher surveys to provide rich professional learning to build their capacity in various ways that include after-school academies, gamified online PD, Google boot camp, micro training videos, and surveying teachers first to see what they wanted and needed. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

edWeb.net

Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004.