The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

We know that every student is unique and has their own learning needs. That's why in this podcast, we'll explore various differentiated reading strategies that can be adapted to fit the needs of every student in your classroom. Jennifer's Podcast: To the Classroom Conversations with Researchers and Educators.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 7, 2018

Should we let our students take these tests? In 2015, over 650,000 students 1 nationwide opted out of standardized tests. In some parts of the country, up to 20% of students did not participate. Assessment is authentic when it asks students to apply their knowledge to real-world, meaningful problems.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. In my experience, these connections don’t just bring new ideas and perspectives to the classroom; they also offer support and inspiration from a global teaching community.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Deans for Impact instead reported the results in three separate categories: 49 percent on 14 basic cognitive science principles; 58 percent correct on 32 questions about applying these concepts in the classroom, and 67 percent on eight questions about beliefs about how kids learn. What worked in one classroom may not work in another.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2015

It includes my dos and don’t for online communication, strategies students can use to ensure they are saying something substantial online, a collection of online icebreakers, and tips for weaving online work back into the classroom! . Weaving Online Discussions Into the Classroom. Just in time for summer reading!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

Student engagement that leads to actual learning is the goal of any pedagogically sound lesson. What do the students think while in class? What are students interested in now？ How do I know if they are actually learning? During the class students answer the questions with “one click”.

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District Administration

MARCH 2, 2015

Learn how classroom audio creates valuable teaching time and improves student engagement in highly differentiated classrooms. See product benefits in short "movies" of classroom successes based on true stories: teachers achieving deeper student insights and results they never thought possible.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

We found that the teachers who learned through a blended format and who had the opportunity to observe blended learning in the classroom were able to implement more quickly. We now provide professional development for educators in a blended format, modeling the strategies that would occur in the classroom. Evaluate the impact.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. I attempted a schoolwide action research project this past year around literacy and engagement. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. I attempted a schoolwide action research project this past year around literacy and engagement. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Lincoln School second grade teacher Kelsi Iturralde works with her guided reading group of students Wednesday Oct. She is seeing that after returning to a classroom from being home during the pandemic, more students are behind, socio-emotionally and academically. The vast majority of ELL students in the district are Hispanic.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Rationale for Bush administration FY 2006 program elimination : “This program provides funding to States and school districts to support the integration of educational technology into classroom instruction, technology deployment, and a host of other activities designed to utilize technology to improve instruction and student learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Source: Checking In: Do Classrooms Assignments Reflect Today’s Standards? by The Education Trust, 2015. Students were able to choose different books to taste and were excited about writing responses. Another sixth grade teacher made up a mystery about Bigfoot and had students write the ending. So what can we do?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

In fact, 90 percent of respondents in a 2015 survey by digital solutions provider Teaching Strategies confirmed early childhood educators have access to technology in some capacity in the classroom and feel that they use it effectively; some 88 percent said they use it once a week, mainly for documentation and instructional purposes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In a candid chat, Mobley shares how embracing technology to personalize instruction and teaching with compassion helps students achieve success and find happiness, in the classroom and beyond. EdSurge: What role does happiness play in student learning, especially in a struggling community like Piedmont? Students in Ms.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub. Transforming Our Classrooms – Ignite Presentation. Teachers combine the three elements in ways they see fit to personalize learning in their classrooms. This year over 2,000 grade 9 students took Digital Learning 10 in Coquitlam. Learning and Failure.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 8, 2015

On Tuesday, I presented my ISTE session, " Best Practices & Digital Tools for Feedback, Assessment, & Evaluation, " to a packed room. Since my student teaching days, I've been refining my peer evaluation process, and with Google Apps for Education, the process has become paperless. Create a Google Form for the peer evaluation.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. Essential Physics is a full-color, comprehensive physics textbook, paired with an e-book offering over 100 interactive tools to increase student engagement and understanding.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. Frustrated with how limiting your classroom projector is? But apparently 10 million isn’t enough for Google.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As the district prepares to reopen for full in-person learning on August 30, teachers are attending training sessions and figuring out just what role technology will play in their classrooms. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

Leaders in the Virginia Beach City Public Schools have been working on their equity agenda since 2015. But while their first two iterations focused more on achievement gaps and access to rigorous classes for all students, the plans didn’t address systemic inequities or really move the needle forward. By Stacey Pusey.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind in 2015, encourages the incorporation of arts and design into the curriculum by citing states’ obligation to support arts education programs in public schools. STEAM’s Impact in the Classroom. Secretary of Education John B.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

– Between 2005 and 2015, STEM employment grew by 24.4 The Boxlight-provided lesson aligns to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for middle and high school students. We developed the activity around the Labdisc because it simulates tools that students will be using when they enter into the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

“I transitioned from the corporate world to use my talents to cater to students who looked like my children — who were receiving their education in that school district at the time,” said Williams-May, who is Black. During the camp, she uses all of her teaching skills to keep the students focused. “I

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Help Students Show What They Know With Media by Wesley Fryer View different examples of student multimedia projects created by students, including narrated art/photo projects, narrated slideshow/screencasts, Quick-edit videos, visual notes, and GeoMap projects. A massive online game? Come play along and learn how.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 3, 2019

STEM is all about a practical approach to learning and student engagement. And eBooks offer the necessary engagement. Students can be active participants in the learning process while going through the course materials as well as while engaging in classroom-based practical activities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A Specific Engagement In May 2015, Education Elements worked with the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township , an urban Indianapolis school district with 16 schools and 11,000 students in grades PreK-12. By 2015, Superintendent Dr. Dena Cushenberry hadn’t seen much change in instruction or student engagement.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2015

MobyMax, developer of personalized and blended learning curriculum for K-8 students, is kicking off the 2015-2016 school year by releasing a new Touch Curriculum technology that uses more than 20,000 cognitive skill manipulatives to deepen students’ mastery of science concepts.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

So many things are thrown their way: assessments, evaluation tasks, submitting lesson plans, building duties, parent communications, and so on. Yet…students need to know stuff. Age levels, discipline and digital access also matter when deciding how to incorporate blended learning in the classroom. We live in the information age.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

To that end, a new report developed by MIDA Learning Technologies , which we researchers worked on, shows that students engaged in PBL understand concepts more deeply than those receiving traditional instruction, resulting in improved problem solving skills. The fifth-grade group had similar results.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2015

Alma Technologies, a provider of a holistic student engagement platform for K-12 schools, has added a standards tracking tool intended to empower educators more effectively teach to proficiency against any set of academic standards. The Standards Tracker is available for the 2015-16 school year.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 8, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. The Connectory – This is a new STEM opportunity that will open in April 2015, so visit the sight and sign up for their newsletter now. Its goal is to help educators with the creation of assessment rubrics for a wide variety of student activities.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When we focus our attention on real-time, up-to-the-second reporting on the portal, we elevate the false idols of scores and grades and devalue what really has an impact on learning: positive student-teacher relationships , relevance and student engagement. We cannot reduce our students to becoming letters and numbers.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom. Technology allows teachers to expand their lessons outside of the classroom and make connections beyond their communities. Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments.

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