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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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Since its start in 2006 by a former teacher, it’s grown to over 3.4 million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more.

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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

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As a well-respected writer on both the NCTM Focal Points and Common Core State Standards, Fennell served as President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 2006–2008 and was a founding member of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. EST (3:45 p.m.

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Games and Apps for Supporting Young Students with Mathematics Difficulties

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According to American School Board Journal in 2006, 40% of US kindergarteners are already one to three years below grade level when they first enter public school. >>> VIEW THE WEBINAR RECORDING.

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Gaming the System: EscapEDX

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In 2006, Robinson gave a TED Talk entitled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" EscapEDX players gain 21st Century, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Common Core, and Bloom's higher-order thinking skills. Only then did I start to love learning. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.

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Pixar In A Box Teaches Math Through Real Animation Challenges

MindShift

Pixar senior scientist Tony DeRose was faced with a problem that animators had never solved — how to make the hand of an old man look lifelike. DeRose needed to figure out how to make a sculpture hand model with many angular planes look smooth and skin-like on the screen. ‘At Pixar art and technology go hand in hand.

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To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning

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Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck kicked off a wave of research in education and psychology with her work — and popular 2006 book, Mindset — defining two distinct “mindsets”: the belief that one’s intelligence is fixed or that it is fluid and can grow with effort. classrooms.

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How Making Mistakes Primes Kids To Learn Better

MindShift

Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck kicked off a wave of research in education and psychology with her work — and popular 2006 book, Mindset — defining two distinct “mindsets”: the belief that one’s intelligence is fixed or that it is fluid and can grow with effort. classrooms.