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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

Before you know it, parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner. It’s easy to let the conference season catch us by surprise, but did you know that parent-teacher conferences are one of the best ways to boost parent engagement? Encouraging Parental Involvement Before Conference Season.

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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When I facilitate training sessions on playlists, I use a backward design approach to guide teachers through the process (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). Teachers can use this time to facilitate conferences, provide feedback, or conduct side-by-side assessments. Want more instruction and support designing playlists and choice boards?

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110% humidity, 100% human collaboration

eSchool News

This summer, thousands of educators and vendors who serve education descended on New Orleans and braved 110% humidity for the first “back to normal” conference for the International Society of Technology in Education, or ISTE. Back then, I worked as a television journalist in Oklahoma City.

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Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Elementary Education

Waterford

When hosting parent conferences, family engagement activities, or concerts, consider requesting an interpreter to meet the language needs of your school,” suggests Candra Morris, VP of Professional Learning at Waterford.org, in her book Why Every Child Needs a Village For Academic Success. Bialystok, E., and Kwan, E.

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Launch of my new website!

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

When she leads a session at a conference, she has on her own site a page that houses her presentation materials. There may be more of a few of you smirking that launching a website is so 2005 of me, and you'd be right. Years ago, I was inspired by Stella Pollard. It's a great one stop shop that's easy to find.

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Love Song to My Readers: Cool Cat Teacher’s 10th blog birthday

The CoolCatTeacher

Cool Cat Teacher, established December 9, 2005 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On this day in 2005, I started blogging. Looking back to December 9, 2005 (my first blog post on the power of Wiki Wiki Teaching ) and the over 1500 blog posts, really I had gotten almost afraid.

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Mini-Conference for Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries - Wednesday, June 17th #library20

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). He is one of TechSoup's primary presenters at conferences in the U.S. Please join them and us!