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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub. The influence of that trip can be seen in this article, shared on their school blog on November 30, 2015.

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3 Strategies for Personalizing Feedback Online

Catlin Tucker

Online students who received audio feedback perceived that feedback as more thorough, detailed, and personal than text feedback (Voelkel & Mello, 2014). Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015).

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3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Dr. Alexander is lifetime certified in Louisiana in Secondary English Education, as a Reading Specialist, as a School Librarian, as an Educational Technology Facilitator, as an Educational Technology Leader and in Educational Leadership 1. She is the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC.

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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. (You can find all of the books here: [link] ) Sackstein co-moderates #sunchat as well as contributes to #NYedChat.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

2015, September 2015). She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy. June 21, 2015. December 18, 2014. Andrea is noticing what many teachers are saying: students are struggling with reading stamina. 14 Comments.

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions. STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin. See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report.

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When I Knew It Was Time to Leave the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. (You can find all of the books here: [link] ) She blogs on Education Week Teacher at “Work in Progress” where she discusses all aspects of being a teacher and education reform.

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