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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Imagine a classroom buzzing with engaged students, actively constructing knowledge and diving deep into topics that spark their curiosity. Conduct individual needs assessments through surveys, goal-setting conversations, or classroom observations. This vibrant learning environment does not just happen by chance. Desimone, L.

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Take the Manage Out of Classroom Management

Catlin Tucker

When I lead blended learning workshops or coach teachers implementing blended learning, I get a lot of questions about classroom management. Managing students implies that the teacher possesses the power in the classroom. Blended learning models require a fundamental shift in control in the classroom from teacher to learner.

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Taking Learners Deeper with Reflection

A Principal's Reflections

In Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms , I shared the need to provide more opportunities for this in lessons as well as specific strategies that can be used. When it comes to reflection in the classroom, the key is to make the time for it through alignment with routine pedagogy. Why was this learning important to you and your peers?

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Revolutionizing Classrooms: How Microsoft’s AI is Changing Education

The CoolCatTeacher

It was truly a thrill for me, as a classroom teacher, for Lydia Smyers, the Vice President of US Education for Microsoft, to sit down with me at ISTE. Smyers is a member of the EDUCAUSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board and has been named as one of CRN’s “Top 100 Women of the Channel” 2009–2013 and named to its advisory board.

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50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom

Waterford

Bringing music into your classroom can not only make lessons more engaging, it may also promote cognitive and social-emotional advantages for your students. Then, discover kid-friendly books and activities about music that are perfect for elementary classrooms. 40 Music Activities for the Kids in Your Classroom. The solfeg.io

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

You may already be familiar with parent involvement and engagement, or listening to and working with parents in the classroom. It means embracing the belief that all voices and perspectives are welcome in your classroom,[1] and intentionally providing space for those voices to be heard.

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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

What are examples of how each are being used in the classroom? Which technology does Steven think will be the most helpful to classrooms? As @web20classroom he regularly travels the country talking to schools and districts about the use of Social Media in the classroom and how they can better serve students through technology.

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