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How to Have Deeper Learning and Better Schools

The CoolCatTeacher

Professor Jal Mehta from the Harvard University School of Education has co-written an award-winning book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ” and reflects on how deeper learning can happen at the secondary level. Sponsor: Pear Deck. Just go to peardeck.com/pear-fair to reserve your seat. You can mix and match your tracks.

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Verizon Innovative App Challenge for Secondary Students

The Innovative Educator

The Challenge is a collaborative competition that offers $10,000 grants and Samsung Galaxy Tabs for winning secondary schools and students. Su bmissions accepted : December 1, 2012 - January 18, 2013 Download the Verizon Innovative App Challenge flyer Find out more here. Registration is open. Cell phones in Education STEM Verizon'

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Thinking Routines in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. And I’m at the in NNSTOY Conference , that’s N-N-S-T-O-Y.org. In March 2012, Karen received a fellowship to attend Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom, and is the co-founder of Project Zero Memphis. Listen Now.

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#Supermuch teaching in the classroom and online

The CoolCatTeacher

We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. Donor’s Choose.

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New Mexico’s Middle College High School Selects Discovery Education’s Pivot Interactives to Support Student Science Explorations

eSchool News

Operated in partnership with University of New Mexico-Gallup, MCHS provides a seamless educational continuum that benefits students as they move from high school to their post-secondary goals. Discovery Education is honored to be selected to support learning in the Middle College High School,” said Karen Sommerhauser, M.Ed.,

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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

Video conferences, emails, or simple phone calls are good ways to keep in touch with families of special needs students. A child might have trouble being understood on a video conference or phone call, or they may miss cues that would normally happen in an in-person session. United States Department of Education. Fleming, Nora.

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Men behaving badly

Dangerously Irrelevant

At the online video conference VidCon a couple of weeks ago, the feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian took the stage for a panel on women’s experiences online, only to find the first two rows of seats stacked with her online harassers, leering up at her, filming her on their phones.