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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Subscribe to the Show Anywhere You Listen to Podcasts This week's sponsor Modern Classrooms will help you teach better today! You’ll be glad you did.

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KyEdRPG Spotlight: Chad Collins and "The Academy"

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Chad Collins has been with Spencer County Public Schools (KY) since 2013, first as a middle school social studies and ELA teacher, and currently as the campus Gifted and Talented Teacher for Spencer County Middle School (SCMS) as well as Spencer County Elementary School. The display case outside of Chad's classroom.

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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

Edsurge

It was an unanticipated scheduling issue that challenged Dr. Bruce Robertson to completely redesign a classroom course to fit an online/in-class hybrid format—in just two weeks. In its stead, he was offered a 150-seat classroom on campus. Robertson has long believed that the linear approach to teaching may not be right for everyone.

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Kahoot: From taking quizzes to transforming your classroom.

Class Tech Integrate

Kahoot was launched in September of 2013, so it's hardly a "new/cutting edge tool." Consumption vs. Contribution A blended learning classroom allows for two major roles for students: consumers and contributors. DOK 3) Students can have the teacher publish the Kahoot globally - extending outside of their classroom walls.

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Taking Student Voice Beyond The Classroom

techlearning

I decided to make student voice part of my life’s work in 2013, at the start of my 6th year teaching Sophomore English. I started that school year with one goal: to take what students loved and incorporate it into the classroom. At the same time I started the Innovation Lab in 2016, I was invited to a gamification conference at UPenn.

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Creating Student Community Writing Spaces

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Using Kidblog , I tried blogging with my students during the 2013-14 school year, and while they did fine writing, we struggled with finding an authentic audience to comment on the 130 individual blogs. Sticking with the theme of gamification for one of the teachers, we named the group Scribe City. The group is very organic.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

If we want our learners to have that — the knowledge, the skills, the dispositions — we know that we need to transform our classrooms. We also have adopted a set of learning beliefs to help us better articulate what we want our classrooms to look like in the future as we approach 2020. Vicki: Wow. You have learning beliefs.