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Using Pop Culture to Teach Writing Skills

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In 2007, she was named a member of the USA Today All-Teacher Team, and in 2011 she was awarded the Massachusetts Commonwealth Award in Creative Leadership. She was a 2015 Top 50 Finalist for the Varkey Global Teacher Prize.

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Goal: Test the Power of Hashtags

Teacher Reboot Camp

In August 2007, Chris Messina introduced hashtags (#) into Twitter’s code , which meant anyone using the platform could add a # sign front of any word(s) without spaces to make it a clickable link leading to a page where all tweets with this hashtag were aggregated. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals !

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Goal: Test the Power of Hashtags

Teacher Reboot Camp

In August 2007, Chris Messina introduced hashtags (#) into Twitter’s code , which meant anyone using the platform could add a # sign front of any word(s) without spaces to make it a clickable link leading to a page where all tweets with this hashtag were aggregated. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals !

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Goal: Rethink Classroom Management

Teacher Reboot Camp

Recently, the Science Friday podcast (July 2015) revealed research showing the ineffectuality of school suspension: “According to a 2007 report from the non-profit Texas Appleseed, for example, over 80 percent of the adults in Texas prisons had dropped out of school. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals !

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Goal: Rethink Classroom Management

Teacher Reboot Camp

Recently, the Science Friday podcast (July 2015) revealed research showing the ineffectuality of school suspension: “According to a 2007 report from the non-profit Texas Appleseed, for example, over 80 percent of the adults in Texas prisons had dropped out of school. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals !

Classroom 150
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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

eSchool News

To learn more, visit www.cambiumlearning.com or follow Cambium on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Over the decades, the company has introduced technologies to make its science of reading-based approach easier to administer in classrooms.

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Learning @Learning2

The Thinking Stick

Before we left the conference we had a school step up wanting to host it for 2015. The things we have tried, the failures, the successes and how a little conference that was suppose to be a one off in 2007 in Shanghai, China has turned into a yearly conference that sells out in a matter of months and is slowly spreading….is