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Take Control of Your Public Relations

A Principal's Reflections

Upon becoming Principal of New Milford High School in June of 2007 I made it one of my primary goals to work hard at sharing with my stakeholders all of the accomplishments centered around teaching and learning occurring on a routine basis. Then social media came into my life.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages. Federal law doesn’t specifically require schools to block Facebook, Twitter, etc. according to a Cyberbullying Research Center report.

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The Good Stuff

A Principal's Reflections

One of the best parts of the month for me is compiling the monthly Principal''s Report. When I became the Principal at New Milford High School in 2007 I felt that it was extremely important to communicate with various stakeholders (parents, BOE members, Central Office, staff, etc.) all of the great things going on at the school.

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Free Lesson Plans and Other Resources to Prevent Cyberbullying and Promote Online Safety

Edsurge

One in three young people have experienced online threats, a rate that has nearly doubled from 2007 to 2016. In 2015 alone, the Center for Disease Control reported that 15.5% We are also giving away free lesson plans about online safety topics and holding a Twitter contest to give educators a chance to win a #BeKindOnline shirt.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 Rarely do the results of those activities contribute back to the information resources that students consume in carrying them out (Keats & Schmidt, 2007, para. Education 1.0 can be compared to Web 1.0 Keats and J. is similar to Web 1.0. Education 1.0

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Why Teacher Recruitment Needs to Change

Insight Education Group

According to an October 2018 jobs report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), there are 389,000 fewer teachers in the K-12 workforce than are needed to keep up with a growing student population. Yet many districts are struggling—really struggling in some cases—to find enough effective teachers to fill their vacancies each year.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

Karen Bosch on episode 288 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Karen: About a month ago, I started seeing stuff on social media. I’ve seen people using the solar system as part of clips where they’re, you know, giving reports on planets.

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