The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 28, 2021

I’ll be sharing my 50+ ways to use technology in the classroom updated with new tools and tips for the challenges of teaching in 2021. A former deputy headteacher, he has been teaching for 27 years working in some of the most challenging secondary schools in London. Ross McGill gives us a better way. Twitter: @ TeacherToolkit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

Today, Starr Sackstein @mssackstein shares 5 feedback strategies to supercharge your writing instruction and classroom culture. In today’s show, Starr Sackstein discusses 5 peer review strategies for the classroom including: Having a class culture for positive peer feedback. How to empower kids to be experts. Listen Now.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Sioux Center High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Davenport West High School. We have STEM-focused model classrooms, STEM teacher licenses, STEM awareness campaigns, etc. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Mt.

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Waterford

MARCH 26, 2021

Let’s look at what the two-generation approach to learning is and how to put it to work in your classroom. How to Practice the Two-Generation Approach in Schools. In your classroom, you might not have the same resources available, but you can take steps to establish a healthy two-generation approach. January 2015.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. After winning the $500 prize last year, I purchased an XYZ 3D printer to integrate STEM into my classroom. Today’s findings are about teachers.

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Battelle for Kids

APRIL 8, 2015

April 9, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 5, Number 6. Driving Question: How do we bring mathematics to life for our advanced math students? Everyone, open your books to chapter 7 section 2 as we will be learning how to factor degree 3 polynomials.". And most of us knew it!

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

On the other hand, many feel that the most useful indications they have aren’t data but instead their own observations about how students are reacting to the technology. teacher and tech coach from Georgia who “loves conducting classroom visits” to get a firsthand look at students on tech platforms. There’s no inquiry!”.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 6, 2016

This quote on the importance of curiosity connected a lot to what I wrote about in “ The Innovator’s Mindset “: Curious kids learn how to learn, and how to enjoy it —and that, more than any specific body of knowledge, is what they will need to have in the future. Yet, here is where I was blown away.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But even after decades of use, graphing technology of any sort in the classroom still sparks debate. As mathematics educators, we think the graphing calculator transformed American classrooms for the better. This was not just so students would learn how to use the calculator. As exams evolved, so too did teaching philosophies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Today Karen Voglesang @NBCTchr teaches children to use thinking routines in her classroom. After participating in Harvard’s Project Zero , she is applying and using the methods in classrooms and with teachers. Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Listen Now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) Beginners in the classroom. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. What are you to your classroom?

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iLearn Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2015

What it is: You guys, the World Education Games is back again, taking place around the world October 13-15, 2015! More than 5 million students from over 200 countries and territories will participate in the games for 2015. When I was still in the classroom, World Math Day was a time of year that students looked forward to.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. And the written language includes thousands of special characters.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers. Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Tomorrow Bus and its resources are designed to enhance awareness of career pathways, in combination with other educational efforts at the secondary level. They also develop critical thinking and listening skills, and an understanding of how to advocate for themselves as responsible members of a larger community.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

The idea is a holdover from the Soviet era and one that the country intends to keep even as it continues to grapple with how to modernize its schools and further shrink the already small achievement gaps among its students. Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Active learning : Teachers apply new knowledge and receive feedback, with ongoing data to reflect how teaching practices influence student learning over time. Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work. 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In this post you will find some wonderful information on using back channels and games in the classroom. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. Check out my Booking Page.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As a college English teacher, my proposed plan is as far out of my comfort zone as I can get, namely to introduce coding into all Year Six classrooms in our contributing CoL. I plan to show the stakeholders how the lesson plans have been created in a way that we simply have to follow the steps provided. Step By Step Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. All states had to submit ESSA plans this fall showing how they intend to measure students’ progress, and the advocates believed that the flexibility in the new law would inspire states to innovate. “The

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Teacher stress is growing, experts say, pushing educators out of classrooms and hurting learning. The biggest reason non-retiring teachers leave the classroom, the report noted, is dissatisfaction at work (55 percent). I love my students. Related: Can mental health training for teachers reduce preschool suspensions?

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eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

In 2015, the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act signaled the end of one-size-fits-all instruction. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 1) Essential Question. 4) Student Voice and Choice.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. defined solutions, such as how to study, solve math problems, and eat healthfully. Some of the very real challenges of life and the classroom are ill-?defined Norton & Company. cut answers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. By the 2015-16 school year, the latest data available online , Louisiana retained 4 percent of its students, still roughly twice the 2.2

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. To reach the state’s target, another 131,400 Minnesotans — two-thirds of them people of color—must earn a post-secondary credential. “As Breaking down stereotypes.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Classroom management skills is the topic of our blog post today! Classroom management is an art and a science that lies at the heart of effective teaching. It’s the invisible thread that weaves together student engagement, academic success, and the overall harmony of the classroom environment. Gage, Ph.D., and Ashley S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

y No Morir en el Intento - William Colmenares Measurement of Global Thinking Levels via Analyses of Solutions to Problems - Marina P. SMILE Together: Collaborative, Inquiry-based Learning using Innovative Hardware and Software. para generar aprendizajes colaborativos en el aula - William H.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. For more than 34 years, Mackin Educational Resources has provided library and classroom materials for grades PK-12.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

In the academic year 2015-16, the state’s funding was reduced by 11% as compared to the last 10 years, which is the result of a hike in education expenses. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. How to Make Education Affordable? How to Deal With the Problem of Cost of Education?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 10, 2016

Not sure how to word this, but innovation is often stifled simply because we are buried in work that other people want us to pull off. This is based on the principle that students should be able to attend their local secondary school with their friends, but have access to programs for part of their schedule at another site.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The PAARC tests, used in states such as Illinois and New Jersey since 2015, were supposed to be even better. Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was the first to suggest combining MCAS and PARCC into MCAS 2.0. (AP The test should be illuminating the actual capacity of our students.”.

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iLearn Technology

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Flexible implementation options mean that Woot Math can be used in any classroom configuration whether it be 1:1 devices, shared devices, whole-class, or as intervention. The Woot Math system works on the web, iPads, or Chromebooks seamlessly…it truly is a great option for any classroom!

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

For two years, we received training in how to teach a variety of text features as readers and writers, such as topic sentences, supporting details, and transitions. Staff members who have spouses teaching in other schools sometimes mention that the student writing produced is comparable with secondary level work.

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