The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. But one of the things that I’ve really learned is that everybody has the potential to change something tomorrow. The next thing you know, you’ve actually shifted an entire culture around what learning really means. Giving Kids Choices Makes a Difference.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. Third, why creativity is important and a little bit of an upsetting story from one of her middle school teachers about what testing was actually doing to harm students in his classroom. What does Virtual Reality have to offer to the learning process?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. Drones in the Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. In the fall of 2015, African-American student retention was 87.2 Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

In 2015, Vanessa Ford’s 4-year-old came out as transgender. In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools. But when our daughter Ellie transitioned, it took us a lot of learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What we have learned with our kids is we have to be incredibly explicit with everything we do.” It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Wynzleen Lee Technology as a possibility to value language teaching profession: yes, there is a choice!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Thursday, November 18th ( US-Eastern Time ) 12:00 AM Dialogue Culture in Education - PhD Galina Pokhmelkina Exploring Global Learning Opportunities - Nikolette Grace A. It's a ton of fun, you'll be doing some good, and you'll have the undying gratitude of the conference organizers! Quindara So You Think You Can Tweet.in Multiple Languages? -

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. It should surprise no one that media comparison studies find no significant difference in student learning. Why would students who use a pencil learn more than students who use a pen? But that’s no reason not to share it.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

EdTechTeam is a California Benefit Corporation , dedicated to effecting positive change in schools, and currently supporting a number of advocacy programs including the Our Voice Academy and the nonprofit Student Voice Foundation. Schools or individual classrooms can sign up to participate. FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. She clicked on icons embedded in the virtual classroom to learn about energy-saving features such as LED lights and super-insulated exterior walls made of concrete-filled foam blocks.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As schools reckon with learning equity, they’re often focused on academic progress. Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. and “Are they learning enough?” LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. They can’t just do all their homework and ask for extra credit projects to obscure the fact that they didn’t truly learn something. Actual mastery is the new bar for passing classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

during the 2015-16 school year were women. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Related: Learning while you earn in college. “It’s because we’re mostly women,” she explained. Women’s work in general is undervalued.”.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 19, 2017

In 2015 I was attending a training program called Women in Leadership. Sometimes with the blog, we simply ask what everyone’s plans are for the upcoming holiday, or ask everyone to share a favorite childhood memory that we could adapt to our classroom. It was the blogging that caught me off guard. Blogging helps us do that.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I should be grateful that I have a child who seems to know what he wants in life, knows what he wants to learn about, and moves confidently towards the future. We sort them by age, not aptitude; govern learning by bells, not mastery; teach to the test, not to their interests. He knows he wants to read Moby Dick over fall break.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Can you describe what this is going to look like and what you hope to learn? This is a piece of hard data relating to equity.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

They started with four squares—learning, community, character, and joy—leading to five principles of practice meant to prepare children to be the global leaders of tomorrow: innovation, data-informed decisions, diversity and inclusion, partnering, and communication. Each student should have mirrors and windows. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2015

Along with this series, be on the look out for another series I will be posting entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning. STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A critical topic for schools, communities, and most importantly, our students, is what teachers do in the classroom to nurture ALL students, create a sense of belonging, and keep educational standards high. She is a 2015 Milken Unsung Hero Fellow and a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow. ” You Can’t Look Away.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. Students who excel move on.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

PRESENTED BY: Dr. Steve Albrecht, author, Library Security: Better Communications, Safer Facilities (ALA, 2015) DATE + TIME: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018, 4:00 pm US-EST (1-hour presentation + 30 minutes with special guests). His 2015 book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities , was published by the ALA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Are students of color getting represented appropriately and are decisions being made to support them and their learning?”. Are students of color getting represented appropriately and are decisions being made to support them and their learning?” “Who is the school board really representing?” said Mendoza.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Everything will broadcast through a Youtube link: We would love for you to watch the event with your students or share with classrooms. An ongoing doc of picture books that we share! You can even participate by tweet about the event or tweeting your own picture book recommendations during the event using the hashtag #pbsmkdwn.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Together with three other researchers at Harvard, UCLA and Stanford, she set up an elaborate experiment with more than 15,000 middle and high school students in California during the 2015-16 school year. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Then the results started coming in. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Are students of color getting represented appropriately and are decisions being made to support them and their learning?”. Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado. “Who is the school board really representing?” said Mendoza.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. Even fewer graduated within four, as Hare plans to do.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 19, 2015

He has been the voice of reason for years, combating the negative influences of standardized tests, grades used as carrots and sticks, and classroom motivation tactics. In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We We are building all of that now to make sure we’re better prepared,” he said. Are We Ready?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Overall, the number of students who were held back in third grade dropped from 3,064 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 2,307 at the end of 2015-16. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. In 2015, 52.4 That’s what the state has put in place. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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