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Standards-Based Grading: How to Start the Journey

The CoolCatTeacher

Nicole Naditz – Bio as Submitted Nicole has been a Program Specialist in Instructional Technology at San Juan Unified School District since 2018. Her most notable awards include finalist for California State Teacher of the Year, 2012 and ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, 2015.

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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. professional learning and new learning experiences.

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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

2010; Cowan, 2012; Lohr & Haley, 2018; Sadera et al., Team-Building with Elementary Students Yes, there are mounds of curricula students must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ).

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). As such, teaching and learning are “always mediated or shaped by cultural influences, they can never be culturally neutral” (Gay, 2018, p. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al.,

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Books to Africa and A Personal Transformation to a Global Educator

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: January 17, 2018. I have had a Books to Africa program going since 2012. I mean, how could you even say that? They’re learning how to be global citizens. You can’t be a citizen in this world without learning how to get along with others. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. I find her very exciting.

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Creating Culture Conscious Campuses

EdNews Daily

I accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of East Texas Advanced Academy (ETAA) in partnership with a school district in East Texas where I served as principal at a middle and elementary school simultaneously. Everhart elementary schools. . This advanced my career to becoming the CEO of ETAA. Whole Child Development.

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PROOF POINTS: Pandemic relief money is flowing to class-size reduction but research evidence for it isn’t strong

The Hechinger Report

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Cutting class size appears to be increasingly popular as school districts figure out how to spend their $190 billion in federal money for coronavirus relief, according to media reports.

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